Marc Abramowitz » grep with color

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3/13/2005

grep with color

March 13th 2005 Posted to Computers, To do, UNIX

Wow, I didn’t realize until today that good ol’ GNU grep supports color highlighting. Up until now, I had been installing rgrep from the jed distribution everywhere so that I could get recursive grepping and highlighting. But GNU grep has both of these now, which means I just need to add:

alias grep='grep --recursive --color=auto'

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