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#6 Re: grep: highlighting matches in color Posted by JoshTriplett (66.93.xx.xx) on Mon 6 Nov 2006 at 22:54 I do the same thing. Solving this requires two steps: To make grep print color even into a pipe, you need the option --color=always. *Don't* put this option into GREP_OPTIONS, unless you want to unleash all manner of insanity and brokenness. Instead, if you don't want to always type grep --color=always, you might make an alias or shell function "cgrep". To make less interpret color escape sequences, you need the -R option. export LESS=-R in your shell startup script.

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