Bash, how to visually distinguish stdout from stderr?

bash

Solution

Well, a few options. Easiest would be to use hilite.

Other options would include writing custom shell wrapper to colorize the input.

A few options are here (note, that they are pretty much xterm-specific).

Problem

I need to visually distinguish, at a glance, stdout output from stderr output coming from a Bash script I am debugging. Can I pipe the command through some "visualisation enhancer" UNIX filter that would at least colour stderr "red", if not even prepend some tag to each stderr line?

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