How to annotate/tag stdout and stderr outputs with bash

CRySoL

Lets create a test script test-std.sh:

#!/bin/bash --

echo info
echo error >&2

We will use sed to prepend some text to each output line. To perform redirection we use a less known feature called process substitution.

$ ./test-std.sh 2> >(sed 's/^/err: /g') > >(sed 's/^/out: /g')
out: info
err: error

And… it’s possible to use a different color to each of them too

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