Bug 107601 - grep supports showing coloured matches but it's not enabled by default
Summary: grep supports showing coloured matches but it's not enabled by default
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: grep
Version: beta1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-10-20 22:33 UTC by Matt Perry
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-10-21 08:59:43 UTC
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Description Matt Perry 2003-10-20 22:33:56 UTC 
Grep supports showing matches in a colour since RedHat 7.3 but it's not enabled
by default like colour support in "ls" is.  These attachments can go in
/etc/profile.d and will set the aliases for grep to show coloured matches.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grep-2.5.1-17
Comment 1 Matt Perry 2003-10-20 22:36:12 UTC 
Not worth making attachments, I guess. 

Put this in /etc/profile.d/colorgrep.csh:

  alias grep 'grep --color=tty'


Put this in /etc/profile.d/colorgrep.sh:

  alias grep='grep --color=tty' 2>/dev/null
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2003-10-21 08:59:43 UTC 
Guaranteed that as soon as this happens there will be bug reports saying to turn
it off.  This is a user preference thing I think.
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