Grep is a wonderful tool useful for searching for all kinds of stuff but sometimes what you are searching for gets lost:
To get your console shell to add a little colour to your grep search terms add the following to your
And as an added bonus this works on Cygwin (the Windows Unix shell) as well as Linux!
Technorati Tags: Cygwin, Linux, Console, Shell, Colour, Grep, Andrew Beacock
To get your console shell to add a little colour to your grep search terms add the following to your
.bashrc
or .profile
or the like:export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'Now if you perform the same search again your output should be a little clearer:
export GREP_COLOR='1;33'
And as an added bonus this works on Cygwin (the Windows Unix shell) as well as Linux!
Technorati Tags: Cygwin, Linux, Console, Shell, Colour, Grep, Andrew Beacock
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