On Fri, 04 Jan 2013, Nick Rout wrote:
> I have been cursing and swearing at my laptop for about 45 minutes here,
> wondering why when I grep multiple files the filename is not given in the
> answer (as should be the default when grepping multiple files). It didn't
> seem to matter if I added -H or any other tricks from man grep. Google
> didn't help.
> 
> Then I altered the viewing angle slightly and noticed that the filenames
> were being reported back, in a purple that is very close the to the black
> background in my xterm.
> 
> D'oh!
 A solution that may suit;

 alias="grep --color=never"

Cheers Ross Drummond
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