On 15/09/2026 20:57, Collin Funk wrote:
Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes:
Your grep coloring is conflicting with the URLs used in --help output.
You can avoid your grep alias with \ like:
$ realpath --help | \grep -Fe '-e'
Interesting. I wonder if that will cause bug reports for RHEL (maybe
others?) down the line, since they add those aliases by default:
$ podman run --rm -it redhat/ubi10
$ alias | grep grep
alias egrep='grep -E --color=auto'
alias fgrep='grep -F --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias zegrep='zegrep --color=auto'
alias zfgrep='zfgrep --color=auto'
alias zgrep='zgrep --color=auto'
I assume it is fairly common to grep for a specific option in --help
output. Then again, I am not sure what more we can do than maybe give
them a heads up.
Programmatic parsing of --help should be very rare,
and for filtering with grep etc. I thought it better to maintain the URLs,
also I didn't think the failure here was too onerous.
cheers,
Padraig
