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GREP_OPTIONS alternative? |
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Tue, 3 Mar 2015 21:55:18 -0800 (PST) |
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Alpine 2.19.4 (DEB 40 2013-11-18) |
Hi,
much to my dismay I noticed that GREP_OPTIONS has been made obsolete. I
usually kept the following in my .profile:
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=tty --devices=skip'
which was honored by GNU/grep and BSD/grep and ignored by e.g
SUNWcsu/grep. Without GREP_OPTIONS, I have to put something like this in
my .profile:
if grep --version 2>/dev/null | egrep -q 'GNU|BSD' 2>/dev/null; then
alias grep='grep --color=auto --devices=skip'
fi
But that leaves out all the other grep variants, so what I really have in
my .profile now is something like this:
if grep --version 2>/dev/null | egrep -q 'GNU|BSD' 2>/dev/null; then
alias grep='grep --color=auto --devices=skip'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto --devices=skip'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto --devices=skip'
alias zgrep='zgrep --color=auto --devices=skip'
alias bzgrep='bzgrep --color=auto --devices=skip'
alias xzgrep='xzgrep --color=auto --devices=skip'
fi
(and even that leaves out bzegrep, xzfgrep, etc.)
I suspect that I'm doing it wrong - but what's the alternative to have
some nice grep defaults and still be portable across platforms?
Thanks,
Christian.
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Boredom in the Kernel.
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Re: bug#19998: GREP_OPTIONS alternative? |
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Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15:59 -0700 |
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On 03/05/2015 11:24 AM, Christian Kujau wrote:
that (and the bits below) seem to confirm that there's no simple
alternative to GREP_OPTIONS
I don't see why the script solution is not considered 'simple'. Anyway,
it's worth documenting the script alternative, so I installed the
attached into the manual and am marking the bug as done.
0001-doc-give-a-script-wrapper-example.patch
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