Output color highlighting for Maven

It works by wrapping your Maven command and then inserting ANSI colour codes in the output.

The script is intended to be run on CLI shell startup.

In addition to the coloring function, it creates the following aliases:

• mvnc - to run "mvn" with color highlighting
• mvnc [TAB] - to run auto complete
• mci - to run "mvn clean install" with color highlighting
• mcist - to run "mci -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dmaven.it.skip=true" with color highlighting

Note: any extra params for mvnc will be proxied to mvn

To install (Ubuntu/Mac)

Put the file in a handy directory (like ~/.aliases) add a link to it in your .bashrc (or other shell's initialization file)

The following set of commands will do the job:

• Make a place for the script to live

mkdir -p ${HOME}/.aliases 

• Download last version

wget https://raw.github.com/banadiga/maven-color/master/maven-color.sh \
  --output-document=${HOME}/.aliases/maven-color.sh

• Add to RC file

echo "[[ -s \"${HOME}/.aliases/maven-color.sh\" ]] && source \"${HOME}/.aliases/maven-color.sh\"" \
  >> ${HOME}/.bashrc

• Re-read your bash configuration

. ${HOME}/.bashrc

To update (Ubuntu/Mac)

Download new version replacing old file and re-read your bash configuration:

The following set of commands will do the job:

• Download last version

wget https://raw.github.com/banadiga/maven-color/master/maven-color.sh \
  --output-document=${HOME}/.aliases/maven-color.sh

• To re-read your bash configuration

. ${HOME}/.bashrc