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When your command line app pours a lot of text at you, it would be nice if it could colorize the words ERROR and WARNING.

Anyone found an app that will do that?

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    What about piping the output to a log file, and tailing the log with Baretail? Then set up a rule in Baretail to highlight lines which contain those keywords?
    – spikey_richie
    Commented Oct 22, 2020 at 13:42
  • that could be useful in the future - thanks! but I am running up to a dozen cmd windows simultaneously and would like integrated color on each one
    – dwilbank
    Commented Oct 22, 2020 at 14:04
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    this should be on Software Recommendations
    – phuclv
    Commented Oct 22, 2020 at 15:43

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There are multiple command line wrappers available out there. Here are a couple:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

https://conemu.github.io/

https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ - Specifically mentions the functionality you wanted.

I'm sure either of those will do what you want, however, PowerShell is the future, and if you're willing to use it, then I recommend:

https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=bgshell

Which will definitely do what you're asking.

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  • I already answered mobaxterm long before you edit the answer and add it
    – phuclv
    Commented Jun 14 at 10:29
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Mobaxterm has that feature. It has some predefined sets of words to colorize, like ERROR, WARNING, YES, NO, FAILED, SUCCESS... and of course you can also add your own

Syntax highlighting in terminal

MobaXterm embedded terminal can highlight syntax or use coloration for keywords, even if you are connected to a remote server which does not support colors. This is useful especially when analyzing log files, editing code or trying to detect important keywords. You can even build your own syntax definitions easily.

Mobaxterm color

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