ENG : If you want to see maven in colour, you can just add an litle awk in a script

FR : Vous voulez voir maven en couleur, il suffit d’ajouter un petit awk dans un script

sudo vi /usr/local/bin/mvnc

#!/bin/sh
mvn $@ 2>&1 | awk ' ($1 == "[ALL]")     {
print "\033[1;37m" $0 "\033[0m"; next; } ($1 == "[FATAL]")     { print "\033[1;31m" $0 "\033[0m"; next; } ($1 == "[ERROR]")     { print "\033[1;31m" $0 "\033[0m"; next; } ($1 == "[WARNING]")     { print "\033[1;33m" $0 "\033[0m"; next; } ($1 == "[INFO]")     { print "\033[1;37m" $0 "\033[0m"; next; } ($1 == "[DEBUG]")     { print "\033[1;36m" $0 "\033[0m"; next; } ($1 == "[TRACE]")     { print "\033[1;32m" $0 "\033[0m"; next; } { print }' 

vi ~/.bashrc

...
alias mvn='JAVA_HOME=~/java/jdk/jdk6; mvnc' ...