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

A simple solution to color stdout in red is to pipe it through grep:

program | grep .

This should not require installing anything, as grep should be already installed everywhere.

Taken from Dennis’s comment on superuser.com.