Opens a terminal window for viewing the output of a command. Useful with Vim for viewing the progress of a compilation or other external command, when run in silent mode.

termview

#!/bin/bash

set -e

OUTPUT_PIPE=`mktemp -u`
STDOUT_SYNC=`mktemp -u`
STDERR_SYNC=`mktemp -u`
mkfifo $OUTPUT_PIPE $STDOUT_SYNC $STDERR_SYNC

exec > >(tee -a $OUTPUT_PIPE ; echo > $STDOUT_SYNC)
exec 2> >(tee -a $OUTPUT_PIPE >&2 ; echo > $STDERR_SYNC)

urxvt \
	-T termview \
	-geometry 200x40+30-80 \
	-e cat "$OUTPUT_PIPE" \
	> /dev/null 2>&1 &

RET=0
sh -c "$*" || RET=$?

exec 1>&-
exec 2>&-
cat $STDERR_SYNC > /dev/null
cat $STDOUT_SYNC > /dev/null

rm -f $OUTPUT_PIPE $STDOUT_SYNC $STDERR_SYNC
exit $RET