Re: grep trick

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:22:08AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote:
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> 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.
> > 
> > --Mike Bird
> > 
> > 
> Those scripts will not load his .bashrc

Which ones? e.g ... as me:

echo $GREP_COLOR
33

less gtt
#!/bin/bash

echo $GREP_COLOR

./gtt
33

So any scripts run *as* me get it too.

-- 
Chris.
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