Colorize Make, GCC and Diff’s Output

Generally, output is more readable when it has colors to allow you distinguish between warnings, errors and progress logs.

Using colormake, colorgcc and colordiff, you can have the output of make, gcc, diff (respectively) coloured.

To install in Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install colorgcc colormake colordiff

You might want to use aliases to override the normal make/gcc/diff commands.

Original tip from here.

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