Colorizing the output of make

Posted by Taoufix on Jan 8th, 2009 in Computers

Sometimes when compiling big projects using Makfiles, it can be hard to see the errors and warnings. To help with this task, colormake is a little script to colorize make’s output:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Usage: colormake [-w | -s PATTERN] MAKE_OPTIONS
#
#  -w           Yellow warnings
#  -s PATTERN   Make lines containing PATTERN green
# Colors

_ESC="$(echo -en ‘\e’)"

C_NULL="${_ESC}[00;00m"

C_RED="${_ESC}[31;01m"

C_GREEN="${_ESC}[32;01m"

C_YELLOW="${_ESC}[33;01m"

C_LIGHTBLUE="${_ESC}[36;01m"
if [ "${1}" == "-s" ] && [ ! -z "${2}" ]; then

    pattern="${2}"

    shift 2

    exec make "$@" 2>&1 | sed \

        -e "s/\(^make.*\)/${C_LIGHTBLUE}\1${C_NULL}/" \

        -e "s/\(.* [Ee]rror:.*\)/${C_RED}\1${C_NULL}/" \

        -e "s/\(.*${pattern}.*\)/${C_GREEN}\1${C_NULL}/"

elif [ "${1}" == "-w"  ]; then

    shift

    exec make "$@" 2>&1 | sed \

        -e "s/\(^make.*\)/${C_LIGHTBLUE}\1${C_NULL}/" \

        -e "s/\(.* [Ee]rror:.*\)/${C_RED}\1${C_NULL}/" \

        -e "s/\(.* [Ww]arning:.*\)/${C_YELLOW}\1${C_NULL}/"

else 

    exec make "$@" 2>&1 | sed \

        -e "s/\(^make.*\)/${C_LIGHTBLUE}\1${C_NULL}/" \

        -e "s/\(.* [Ee]rror:.*\)/${C_RED}\1${C_NULL}/"

fi