I have set GREP_OPTIONS="--ignore-case --color"
in ~/.bashrc
as I normally want grep to work case-insensitive. However, there are times when I need grep to actually search case-sensitive, but the man page doesn´t suggest a param for this.
How can I achieve this?
Best Answer
I probably would define an alias with my options, e.g.:
as this would only affect interactive programs and not scripts. You could then just run
\grep
or/bin/grep
to run it without any options.If you want to keep using
GREP_OPTIONS
you can just unset it for your commandline, e.g.