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This handy piece of code colors errors and warnings in make output.
(put it in your .bash_profile) 

make()
{
  pathpat="(/[^/]*)+:[0-9]+???
  ccred=$(echo -e ???\033[0;31m")
  ccyellow=$(echo -e "\033[0;33m")
  ccend=$(echo -e "\033[0m")
  /usr/bin/make "$@" 2>&1 | sed -E -e "/[Ee]rror[: ]/ s%$pathpat%$ccred&$ccend%g??? -e ???/[Ww]arning[: ]/ s%$pathpat%$ccyellow&$ccend%g???
  return ${PIPESTATUS[0]}
}

via shawnwilsher.com

An alternative would be to install colormake and use that instead of the normal make command.

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If you need to direct output into the void in your program on a *NIX system you simply pipe or redirect it to the null device /dev/null.
Needing a similar functionality today in a C# .NET project I found the following equivalent:

Stream.Null

Seemed fairly useful to me 😉