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bug#55641: Using colours with grep
From: |
goncholden |
Subject: |
bug#55641: Using colours with grep |
Date: |
Sat, 28 May 2022 18:19:25 +0000 |
------- Original Message -------
On Sunday, May 29th, 2022 at 5:36 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 5/26/22 20:27, Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> > $ export GREP_COLORS='ms=01:33'
> > $ man grep | grep prevents
> > $ man grep | GREP_COLOR='01;32' grep prevents
> >
> > Now, both results have "prevents" in yellow, which agrees with the
> > man page. However, the OP expected the GREP_COLOR setting on the
> > command line to override the GREP_COLORS setting in the environment,
> > which it doesn't.
>
>
> Thanks, your explanation let me see the problem.
>
> Since GREP_COLOR is deprecated, I doubt whether we should be changing
> grep to support this obsolescent usage in a different way. When it comes
> to obsolescent features, the only thing we're likely to change is to
> remove them entirely (as any change will disrupt somebody...).
I agree on removing GREP_COLOR entirely. Awk and Sed have convenient ways of
temporarily changing colours.
sga="$(tput setaf 46)"
sgr="$(tput sgr0)"
sed -r $"s/^==> .* <==$/${sga}&${sgr}/"
Would be a good improvement if one can change the colour temporarily from the
default. This would help in sectioning matches, particularly when multiple
files are involved.
- bug#55641: Using colours with grep, goncholden, 2022/05/25
- bug#55641: Using colours with grep, Paul Eggert, 2022/05/26
- bug#55641: Using colours with grep, Gary Johnson, 2022/05/26
- bug#55641: Using colours with grep, Paul Eggert, 2022/05/28
- bug#55641: Using colours with grep,
goncholden <=
- bug#55641: Using colours with grep, Paul Eggert, 2022/05/28
- bug#55641: Using colours with grep, Jim Meyering, 2022/05/29
- bug#55641: Using colours with grep, Paul Eggert, 2022/05/29