Howdy! I was trying to enable colors on the matching text for grep, and can't get the formatting to work with the matching text.
# Partial contents of .zshenv export GREP_OPTIONS="--color=auto" export GREP_COLORS='mt=1;34' # Problem command, no matching text (mt) appearing bold/blue, run in a C# solution: $ grep -R -n -i -e "functionFoo\(" --include=*.cs --exclude-dir=Logs * # Command that works and highlights matching text, note that -i option disabled $ grep -R -n -e "functionFoo\(" --include=*.cs --exclude-dir=Logs * My superuser inquiry: http://superuser.com/questions/73261/grep-colorauto-with-i-option-disables-the-matching-text-color-why This problem was found with the following program/platform versions: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 *** 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin $ grep --version GNU grep 2.5.3 $ zsh --version zsh 4.3.9 (i686-pc-cygwin) Windows Vista Business Service Pack 2 Feel free to email me with anything that's missing. I'm not sure if this is a bug with Cygwin on Vista or perhaps grep. I didn't find much past the man pages on google with respect to grep colorization (on any platform). Thanks, Alan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple