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Re: format grep ouput



On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 14:29 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 07/15/07 13:40, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> > I'm playing with recursive grep. Still fairly new to Etch.
> > 
> > When I grep text files and get a dozen or so results, they print to
> > the screen as a dense block of text.  I found the color option, which
> > helps, but is there a way to separate each result with a blank line,
> > or highlight the file name or something?
> > 
> > I know some Python if I have to pipe it to a Python script.  But I'm
> > thinking there's some easy pipe I could using just bash and Linux
> > commands, as this must be a common probelm.
> 
> Any piping will eliminate the color.  That's what happens, at least, 
> with ls.

ls --color=auto (usually ls is an alias for this) doesn't output colour
when not printing to a TTY to make processing easier and behave like
everyone has expected for decades. Pipes and colours don't theoretically
conflict.

[ron, sorry for the first msg]

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