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Color-always on grep breaks CircleCI (and possibly other bash scripts) #29

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sdspikes opened this issue Oct 16, 2017 · 1 comment

sdspikes commented Oct 16, 2017

dotfiles/.bash_profile

Line 75 in 93a2e91

export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=always'

If you have a bash script (like CircleCI's CLI: https://circle-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/releases/build_agent_wrapper/circleci) that redirects the grep output into a file, you get escape characters for the coloring in the file, which in this case, broke the script in a very non-obvious way.

vcolavin commented Jun 27, 2018 •

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I ran into this today. Here's a fix that lets you still have colors:

export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'

This won't output the color character if in a non-interactive environment.

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