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Making grep output easier to see

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Sandra Henry-Stocker
Mar 17, 2015

If you’d like your search terms to be more visible when you use the grep command, you can use an alias like this. It will put the term that you’re looking for in a different color so that you can spot it more easily on each line of text.

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Sandra Henry-Stocker

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