Get color output in bash

Question

when compiling some projects on linux terminal, I get usually a long output consisting of a lot of information. Usually this information is MONOCHROME. I wonder if bash can be modified somehow, so in all outputs or in some specific outputs (like from Makefile, etc) I can get different colors dependeing on, for instance:

make[1]: Leaving directory 

or

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H     -I. 

etc.

Thanks

Answer 1

I found that in bash tput setf doesn't work. I found this commands for bash that are working well

handy tput commands

tput bold - Bold effect
tput rev - Display inverse colors
tput sgr0 - Reset everything
tput setaf {CODE}- Set foreground color, see color {CODE} below
tput setab {CODE}- Set background color, see color {CODE} below
Colors {code} code for tput command

Color {code}    Color
0    Black
1    Red
2    Green
3    Yellow
4    Blue
5    Magenta
6    Cyan
7    White