Coloring the Output from Grep

grep with color output

This is another link from the same guy as above. The blog seems very useful so I suggest reading some of the other entries he has as well. This one deals with coloring the output of grep (which I have talked about before). The thing I didn't know was how to maintain that color output when I piped the output of grep to less. I always seemed to lose the color, but this post tells you how to remedy that.

By the way, I used a alias grep='grep --color=always' and a alias less='less -R' line in my .bashrc file instead of what he suggested, but it still works the same way.