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Re: Why tab is not colored?
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DennisW |
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Re: Why tab is not colored? |
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Tue, 04 May 2010 15:48:40 -0000 |
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On Mar 7, 10:20 am, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My grep is aliased to "grep --color=auto".
>
> I then use grep "<TAB>", where <TAB> is a tab character. But the
> result is not colored. How to make the tabs colored?
If you grep for a space or a newline, they don't get highlighted
either. That's just the way it works. To colorize "whitespace" grep
would have to set the background color.
Also, as Bob said, this is a Bash list, not a grep one.
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