Re: Why tab is not colored?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/07/2010 05:21 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> My grep is aliased to "grep --color=auto".
>
> I then use grep "<TAB>", where<TAB>  is a tab character. But the
> result is not colored. How to make the tabs colored?

Tabs are "white space" and as such cannot really be colored with the 
default setting of making matches red-on-black.  You can use

GREP_COLORS='ms=41:mc=41' grep --color '<tab>'

to make tabs stand out in the matched text.

Paolo