Less and ANSI colour escape sequences

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 09:46:33 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 27 October 2009 02:36 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 02:19 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> grep is aliased to `grep --color=auto'
>>
>
> This is the problem. It should be aliased to 'grep --color=always'
>

And that was it! In my frustration I didn't notice that difference. My 
University machine has it aliased to `grep --color=always' and it works 
there.

Thank you sooo much. :)
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Suvayu

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