Colorize shell output

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  1. oleber

    oleber New Member

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    Many programs use the STDOUT to produce some normal output and the STDERR to show the errors. I'm actually working with the g++ that do this and a question appeared.

    Wouldn't be nice to see it with different colors?

    Code:
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    
    use IPC::Open3;
    use IO::Select;
    use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
    
    $|++;
    
    my $pid;
    eval { $pid=open3(*WRITE, *READ, *ERROR, @ARGV); };
    
    if (!$pid) {
        # if we get here, the fork succeeded, but the exec (likely) failed...
        my $err = $@ ? $@ : "unknown error";
        # exit child in any case
        die "Error: Could not execute: $err";
    } else {
        close(*WRITE);
        my $selector=IO::Select->new();
        $selector->add(*READ, *ERROR);
        while(my @ready=$selector->can_read()) {
            foreach my $fh (@ready) {
                my $count = sysread($fh, my $text, 1024);
                $selector->remove($fh) if not $count;
    
                if(fileno($fh)==fileno(*READ)) {
                    print($text); 
                } elsif(fileno($fh)==fileno(*ERROR)) {
                    print(RED, $text, RESET); 
                }
            }
        }
    }
    
    way of use
    Code:
    colorize g++ file.cpp
    
    Useful modules.

    use IPC::Open3; : allow to run shell commands and get the STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR.
    use IO::Select; : check if a handler has something to be read.
    use Term::ANSIColor qw:)constants); : helps to do the colorize.
     
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    Another Useful modules today. Thanks.
     
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