Which tool for colorizing output of javac?

Question

We have a hugely parallelized build process, so I frequently have to browse through large amounts of output from javac to find a build error.

To make this easier it would be nice if there were some tool that will colorize the output of javac to my terminal, highlighting errors in the code.

What tool can I use to colorize the output of javac?

Answer 1

using grep with the "--color" option ?

~$ javac Test.java 2>&1 | egrep --color "^|error"