Adding Color to Your Grep Output

By Daniel Miessler on December 14th, 2008: Tagged as System Administration | Technology

[bash] export GREP_OPTIONS=’–color=auto’ [/bash]

This makes it so that the content you matched with your grep string is highlighted within the returned results.

(thanks to Adrian for the link)

  • Joel

    You should try ack.

    http://petdance.com/ack/

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    Ack looks really cool, but I like to be solid with tools that are on every system.

  • Joel

    You should try ack.

    http://petdance.com/ack/

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    Ack looks really cool, but I like to be solid with tools that are on every system.

  • Joel

    You should try ack.

    http://petdance.com/ack/

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    Ack looks really cool, but I like to be solid with tools that are on every system.


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