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Let's say I have this commandline:

~/development/company/folder:

and i run this command

./gradlew appRun

then my command line looks like this:

~/development/company/folder: ./gradlew appRun

Now, if there is an error and there is a bunch of output, then i need to scroll up and, because unix just formats everything the same, it's real easy to get all the lines and commands mixed up.

What I would like is for each command I enter to be like, bright red or bold or something, and all the output from that to be white or whatever it currently is.

How do i do that?

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    Relating unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20803/…, for bash Commented Jan 28, 2020 at 16:15
  • @Jeff yeh, this is a duplicate Commented Jan 28, 2020 at 16:26
  • It is a quite different answer for the Z shell, note. Commented Jan 28, 2020 at 19:53
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    Try liquidprompt, it only changes the prompts, but the changed prompts are conspicuous that a command's output is usually distinct from its invocation. Commented Feb 1, 2020 at 16:12

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It's not that UNIX formats everything the same. Any command you run can also write formatted output.

When you run for instance ./gradlew appRun, just redirect the output (both the error stream and the standard output stream to a file)

./gradlew appRun &> mylogfile.log
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