How can I highlight the warning and error lines in the make output?

Question

Sometimes, make's output fills the screen. It's a little bit hard to identify all the warning and error message lines. I know may shell color output can help Can anyone can help me?

Answer 1

Have a look at colormake, found here

$ apt-cache search colormake colormake - simple wrapper around make to colorize output 

Using the power of google, I also found this bash-function.

make() {   pathpat="(/[^/]*)+:[0-9]+"   ccred=$(echo -e "\033[0;31m")   ccyellow=$(echo -e "\033[0;33m")   ccend=$(echo -e "\033[0m")   /usr/bin/make "$@" 2>&1 | sed -E -e "/[Ee]rror[: ]/ s%$pathpat%$ccred&$ccend%g" -e "/[Ww]arning[: ]/ s%$pathpat%$ccyellow&$ccend%g"   return ${PIPESTATUS[0]} } 

Answer 2

I have came to this questions searching for a solution to colorize make output and then remembered a while back I have researched a good generic log colorizer and found ccze. It works with anything I throw at it from Minecraft server logs to Exim MTA.

make | ccze -A

NOTE: specifying -A option enables 'raw-ansi' otherwise some output is 'cleared' at end of run in my experience.