Re: [Zutils-bug] zgrep 1.6 doesn't support --color option

[Matias Fonzo]

Hi Antonio :-)

On Tue, 09 May 2017 18:34:23 +0200
Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Chris,
> 
> Chris Tashjian wrote:
> > I'm running zgrep 1.6 (which I grabbed and built from
> > https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.6.tar.lz)
> > on CentOS 6.9 and noticed that the color option doesn't work.  
> 
> You are right. Zutils' zgrep does not support the --color option. 
> (--color is a GNU extension).
> 
> I have just implemented it. You may find the new version of zutils
> with the fixed zgrep at
> 
> http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.7-pre1.tar.lz
> 

I have just added this zutils version into Dragora.

Just one detail, GNU grep also supports the --colour option:

      --color[=WHEN],
      --colour[=WHEN]       use markers to highlight the matching strings;
                            WHEN is 'always', 'never', or 'auto'

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