thanks checked with 2 other terminals (xfce terminal and terminator). both work OK.
joe On Sat, 2019-11-02 at 09:22 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/2/19 6:04 AM, josef radinger wrote: > > 3 examples: > > > > *) grepping for X with in a wide enough xterm > > *) a problematic xterm: > > **) grepping without color -> correct > > **) grepping with color -> missing characters from the result > > > > pasteing the result shows that there "is" no X in the result. > > Surely this is a bug in xterm, not in grep. Try this: > > ps auxww | grep --color=always X >foo > cat foo > > If you still see the problem, look at foo this way: > > od -cx foo > > and see what color-change commands 'grep' is issuing. >
