Bug#475772: dpkg should set GREP_OPTIONS

2008-04-13 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 2:08p -0400 on Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Colin Watson wrote: reassign 475772 general I think an appropriate solution would be to unset or export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=none' in the beginning of scripts that rely on grep. [not feasible, *lots* of legacy scripts to fix] Good point. I guess the m

Bug#475772: dpkg should set GREP_OPTIONS

2008-04-12 Thread Kevin Hunter
Package: a lot of them I've recently set GREP_OPTIONS='--color=always' in my bashrc. I do this mainly so that I can see grep's highlighted findings even when viewing through a pipeline, such as with less. '--color=auto' won't work because it will turn off the color escapes if it's going down