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Colorful grep
- Authors
- Name
- Kevin Old
- @kevinold
I'm not sure how I've made it this far in my career and never knew that grep had a color option to highlight the term you're searching for in the results. Guess I've never really needed it that bad, but since stumbling across this, it's made things a lot easier to view.
To make this seamless you can add this to your .bash_rc
or .bash_profile
:
alias grep="grep --color=auto"
Thanks to asommer's .bash_rc for pointing this out.