On Saturday 17 June 2006 13:48, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Using --color=auto, on the > other hand, is the correct way to do the "right" thing, ie grep > itself "knows" whether it should emit escape sequences to colorize the > output (if it's really outputting to terminal) or not (if, for example, > it's called from inside a command substitution).
Just to show you the purpose of adding --color=always. Try the following: # echo hello | grep --color=auto ll | less # echo hello | grep --color=always ll | less -- Bo Andresen
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