I'm facing difficulties while trying to multicolor-highlight matches using grep's color environment.
After I stumbled across Colored grep, I found it very useful to highlight multiple pattern in a single run.
So I set up the alias' as told, but then I came across following problem:
echo "Im looking for KeyWords" | grep 'KeyWords' --color=always | green-grep 'Word'
results in
Im looking for Key Words (italic=red, bold=green)
where the "s" is not highlighted red, because grep
sets the color environment back to normal after the end of a match.
Is there any way to realize this with grep
, or am I facing a wall?
Best Answer
You haven't hit a wall, but you've hit a
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! (So unfortunately, no, you cannot do that without a major re-write of thegrep
source code.)However, I like the idea, so if you want, feel free to file a bug at the FSF, or if you don't want to go through the effort, I'll file the bug for you! (just drop a comment)
Fantastic question! I've already added:
to my
bash.bashrc
file!