Hi,
much to my dismay I noticed that GREP_OPTIONS has been made obsolete. I
usually kept the following in my .profile:
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=tty --devices=skip'
which was honored by GNU/grep and BSD/grep and ignored by e.g
SUNWcsu/grep. Without GREP_OPTIONS, I have to put something li
G'day,
I notice that there is a page, "Information for GNU grep developers", at
http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/devel.html
This page is out of date in some areas (e.g. talks about "2.5.1a" as the
latest stable release, and describes CVS as the source control program,
not Git).
You can rea
On 03/03/2015 09:55 PM, Christian Kujau wrote:
what's the alternative to have
some nice grep defaults and still be portable across platforms?
You can put a script like this in $HOME/bin:
#! /bin/sh
export PATH=/usr/bin
exec grep --color=auto --devices=skip "$@"
and then prepend $HOME/bin to y
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 at 14:43, Paul Eggert wrote:
> You can put a script like this in $HOME/bin:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> export PATH=/usr/bin
> exec grep --color=auto --devices=skip "$@"
>
> and then prepend $HOME/bin to your PATH.
Well, and I'd have to do this for every *grep variant, so instead of
cre
Christian Kujau wrote:
I'd have to do this for every *grep variant
No, not if the other variants invoke 'grep'.
