On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:58:43PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: > > > 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. > >> > > Those scripts will not load his .bashrc > > The GREP_OPTIONS and GREP_COLOR environment variables created some problems > for me a while ago (See > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411931 ) > > So instead of aliasing grep with color related options, I am currently using > > if [ ! -z "$PS1" ]; then > function colgrep(){ command grep --color=always "$@"; } > fi > > hth > raju
At least in unstable: "grep --color=auto" works nicely. So I think we can alias or use GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'; export GREP_OPTIONS Also, "GREP_COLORS" should be used instead of "GREP_COLOR". Anyway, it was interesting. Osamu > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ > http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
