Re: grep trick

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

Rich Healey wrote:

> Mike Bird wrote:
>> On Mon April 7 2008 16:03:28 Chris Bannister wrote:
>>> export GREP_COLOR=33
>>> alias grep='grep --colour=always'
>> 
>> This will break any scripts which assume that the output
>> of grep has not been annotated with color escape sequences.
>> 
> Those scripts will not load his .bashrc

The GREP_OPTIONS and GREP_COLOR environment variables created some problems
for me a while ago (See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411931 )

So instead of aliasing grep with color related options, I am currently using

if [ ! -z "$PS1" ]; then
  function colgrep(){ command grep --color=always "$@"; }
fi

hth
raju
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