hilite is a utility which executes whatever command you specify, highlighting anything it prints to stderr. It's most useful when compiling, since warnings are printed in bright red and are therefore very hard to miss.
| Tags | Software Development Build Tools Systems Administration Terminals Terminal Emulators/X Terminals Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases


Changes: The code was streamlined, and dup2() is not used. Error handling was improved. The source code is now neater. The program no longer attempts to print error messages to stderr after closing stderr.


Changes: Improved error reporting.


Changes: Error messages were going to stdout instead of stderr. This has been fixed.


Changes: '\e' has been changed to '\033' due to problems compiling on certain systems.


Changes: A fix for an lvalue problem that prevented compilation on Solaris, reindentation, and a #include for string.h to get rid of a strerror() warning.