From: Philip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding --color option to script?
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:18:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D794E28.4050001@redfish-solutions.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101231000329.GB17311@nb.net.home>
On 12/30/10 4:03 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:25:02PM -0800, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> I would love to see an option like --color which used terminal
>> colors to highlight STDERR output (or, in a pinch, maybe bold it on
>> terminals that don't support color... if they still exist).
> The script(1) command does not work on this level. It reads data
> directly from master side of the terminal. It means that we are not
> able to distinguish between stdout and stderr.
>
>> Sound reasonable?
> Yes, but I don't see a way how to implement it.
>
> Karel
>
I just realized... it can be done by having two ptys, one for stdin/stdout, and another just for stderr.
-Philip
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