grep with color

October 5th, 2006 mysurface Posted in grep, Misc, Text Manipulation | Hits: 10131 | 5 Comments »

Nowadays most of the time, terminal support coloring. For example when you list the files in a directory, the file listed with display with different color, which indicate different type of files.

Grep too, support color, you can do this

grep --color "printf" src

grep will list all lines from files in src directory which have keyword “printf” and the word “printf” will be highlighted with color.

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5 Responses to “grep with color”

  1. toydi Says:
    October 5th, 2006 at 8:18 pm 
    grep --color "printf" src  #double dash
  2. mysurface Says:
    October 6th, 2006 at 12:49 pm

    The problem is, I specified

    --

    , but it been coverts to – (& # 8211 ; )

    Do you have any solution to solve this problem? Change the templates? how to change the entire blockquote to use < code >

  3. toydi Says:
    October 6th, 2006 at 4:55 pm

    I see, mostly it’s the WYSIWYG HTML editor silent conversion, I will test the editor on this weekend.

    Maybe we can add a new “code” button with in that editor, let’s try.

  4. liewsheng Says:
    October 11th, 2006 at 8:15 pm

    I face another problem when using < pre > < code > pair, '\' inside it will be deleted.

  5. mysurface Says:
    October 11th, 2006 at 10:35 pm

    Yes, you are right, therefore you need this &#92; for ( \ )

    Always check out HTML symbol for more at http://www.primeshop.com/html/jump3b.htm

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