hilite
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
- 13 Nov 2001 11:02
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.
- 05 Oct 2001 15:47
Changes: Improved error reporting.
- 30 Aug 2001 13:45
Changes: Error messages were going to stdout instead of stderr. This has been fixed.
- 29 Aug 2001 14:48
Changes: '\e' has been changed to '\033' due to problems compiling on certain systems.
- 30 Jan 2001 06:12
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.
