I am not happy with GREP_OPTIONS being deprecated. I asked here for help, but received no solution I like:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/351083/colored-grep-output-not-grep-options-not-alias Here the question: I want colored output of `grep`. .... But * Strategy 1: GREP_OPTIONS. But this is deprecated. See http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/html_node/Environment-Variables.html * Stragegy 2: GREP_COLORS look like a solution at the first sight, but this does something different. * Strategy 3: alias. This does not work for `find ... | xargs grep`, since xargs does not evaluate aliases. * Strategy 4: Write a simple wrapper script. No, I think this is too dirty and makes more trouble than it solves. * Strategy 5: patch the source code - No * Strategy 6: Contact grep developers, ask for a replacement of GREP_OPTIONS * Strategy NICE-and-EASY: ... this is missing. I have no clue. How to solve this? Now I follow Strategy 6. Why is GREP_OPTIONS deprecated? I guess this can do confusing things if you exclude directories via this environment variable. But setting color=auto looks like something which does not do harm. May be I am too naive. Then please tell me. What do you think? Regards, Thomas Güttler -- http://www.thomas-guettler.de/
