Make your maven output colorful to easily identify FAILURES and look a bit easier on the eye.

mvn-color-bashrc.sh

PURPLE=$(echo -en "\033[35m")
GREEN=$(echo -en "\033[32m")
RED=$(echo -en "\033[31m")
BLUE=$(echo -e "\033[1;34m")
NORMAL=$(echo -e "\033[0m")
 
mvn2() {
mvn $* | sed \
    -e "
    s/^\(Failed tests:.*\)$/$RED\1$NORMAL/;                 # contains 'Failed tests:'
    s/^\(.*\b[S][U][C][C][E][S][S]\b.*\)$/$GREEN\1$NORMAL/; # contains SUCCESS somewhere in the message
    s/^\(.*\b[S][K][I][P][P][E][D]\b.*\)$/$PURPLE\1$NORMAL/;# contains SKIPPED somewhere in the message
    s/^\(.*\bWARNING\b.*\)$/$PURPLE\1$NORMAL/;              # contains WARNING somewhere in the message
    s/^\(\bWARN\b.*\)$/$PURPLE\1$NORMAL/;                   # contains WARN somewhere in the message
    s/^\(.*\bERROR\b.*\)$/$RED\1$NORMAL/;                   # contains ERROR somewhere in the message
    s/^\(.*\bFAILURE\b.*\)$/$RED\1$NORMAL/;                 # contains FAILURE somewhere in the message
    s/^\(Caused by*.*\)$/$RED\1$NORMAL/;                    # starts with 'Caused by'
    s/^\(\tat .*\)$/$RED\1$NORMAL/;                         # starts with 'at ...' (stack trace)
    s/^\(Tests run\b.*\)$/${BLUE}\1${NORMAL}/;              # start with 'Tests run'
    " 
}