That was something I suspected. On my system, I taught it was doing the same with 'grep' alone too, but it turned out my default .bashrc setup an alias for 'bash' to ass '--color=auto'. I do get the same issue if I type...
$ printf 'line%s\r\n' 1 2 3 | grep . ...because of the alias, buy typing... $printf 'line%s\r\n' 1 2 3 | /bin/grep . ...does not cause issue. Indeed, it does not cause an issue in a script, as the text is sent through the pipe without color rendering. So, I was wondering if it was grep or not. Regards, Eric
