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Cool POSIX app to colourize your terminal applications

March 15th, 2005

http://cwrapper.sourceforge.net is a great application for colourizing the output from programs like make, gcc, ps, df, etc. I find it particularly usefull for make and gcc since it highlights warnings and errors.

Its extremely easy to install. I had to modify it a bit to compile under QNX but it works out of the tarball for linux. Basically: tar jxvf cw.tar.gz; cd cw; ./configure && make install; echo "export PATH=/usr/local/lib/cw:$PATH" >> .bashrc

To configure other programs or tweak it, edit the wrapper config files in /usr/local/lib/cw

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