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| author | Mitja Felicijan <mitja.felicijan@gmail.com> | 2024-03-10 14:59:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Mitja Felicijan <mitja.felicijan@gmail.com> | 2024-03-10 14:59:14 +0100 |
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Move back to JBMAFP
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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: "Grep to Less that maintain colors" | ||
| 3 | permalink: /grep-to-less-maintain-colors.html | ||
| 4 | date: 2023-05-29T21:27:07+02:00 | ||
| 5 | layout: post | ||
| 6 | type: note | ||
| 7 | draft: false | ||
| 8 | tags: [bash] | ||
| 9 | --- | ||
| 10 | |||
| 11 | I often use `grep` to search for todo's in my code and other people's code and | ||
| 12 | then pipe them in `less` and I missed having colors that grep outputs in `less`. | ||
| 13 | |||
| 14 | - Grep's `--color=always` use markers to highlight the matching strings. | ||
| 15 | - Less's `-R` option outputs "raw" control characters. | ||
| 16 | |||
| 17 | You could use `alias grep='grep --color=always'` and `alias less='less -R'` or | ||
| 18 | create todo function in your `.bashrc` that accepts first argument as search | ||
| 19 | string. | ||
| 20 | |||
| 21 | ```sh | ||
| 22 | # This is where the magic happens. | ||
| 23 | grep --color=always -rni "TODO:" | less -R | ||
| 24 | ``` | ||
| 25 | |||
| 26 | {:loading="lazy"} | ||
