Is it possible to make stdout and stderr output be of different colors in XTerm or Konsole?

Question

Is it even achievable?

I would like the output from a command’s stderr to be rendered in a different color than stdout (for example, in red).

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Answer 1

Hilite will do this. It's a lightweight solution, but you have to invoke it for each command, eg. hilite gcc myprog.c. A more radical approach is built in to my experimental shell Gush which shows stderr from all commands run in red, stdout in black. Either way is very useful for software builds where you have lots of output with a few error messages that could easily be missed if not highlighted.