[linux-audio-user] A dumb Unix question about console output

Hi, I hesitate to ask this here, since it's gotta be a basic shell thing, and certainly not audio specific, so if you want to flame me for me OT and laziness, go ahead. The problem is that when I run I run an X application from a console (for example, "pd &" or "rosegarden &", the console output from all the applications I run are interleaved onto the xterm that I started them from. That part is fine. The part that is not fine, is that the output is not labeled with the application that it came from. For example, I seem to remember that if in the past, if you ran grep, for example, anything that grep sent to its console would be prefixed by "grep:". I thought that this was a convention that the apps followed, and not a shell thing (I seem to remember "printf("%s: ...", argv[0], ....") Hopefully, I'm wrong about this, and there is a shell option that puts the application name in front of every line of output. Is there? If it's not something I can make happen in the shell, then how is everyone dealing with this? Currently I am actually opening a seperate xterm for each X application that I run, which is quite cumbersome, because it means that I have to manage twice minus one as many windows as I would if I could have all the output into one xterm, identified with where it came from. Looking forward to any ideas and any pointers to my misconceptions. Larry Troxler