Re: grep colour usage

[Julian Foad]

(Grep now has its own mailing list, so I'm redirecting this to it.)

Amit Kucheria wrote:
> I have defined GREP_COLOR in my environment. The colour shows up using
> grep without any options but doesnt show when using grep with -i or -r
> option.

Thank you for reporting a problem, but you need to provide more information 
before we can reproduce and diagnose the problem.  What exactly are the 
commands and input that worked and did not work?  What is the value of GREP_COLOR?

There are lots of bugs with "--color" and "-i" and "--only-matching" in Grep 
v2.5.1, so you might well have encountered one of them.  They are being fixed 
in CVS but there is no newer released version yet.

- Julian


> Following is my system configuration.
>
> $ grep -V
> grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1
> $ uname -a
> Linux sauron 2.6.11amit #1 Wed Apr 6 14:20:54 EEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
> $ cat /etc/issue
> Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l