[Fwd: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10]

Chris F.A. Johnson chris-E7bvbYbpR6jSUeElwK9/Pw at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 15 18:18:00 UTC 2009


On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> | From: Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | A few things I've noticed already;
> 
> Thanks for the update.
> 
> I run Ubuntu on some of my systems and I salvishly update when a new
> version seems safe.  Thanks for being one of the testers!
> 
> | - At the command line, when you pipe something through grep, it highlights the
> | part of the string grep matched on. A small change, but soooo nice.
> 
> How could it do that without violating normal UNIX abstractions??

   GNU grep has the --color option which provides that. Perhaps Ubuntu
   has the stupid and dangerous practice of installing aliases for
   standard commands?

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