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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:52:03 +0100
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Subject: Re: grep -i --color does not always color
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2009/10/22 Morten Kj=C3=A6rulff:
> Is this an error, or have I misunderstod something?
>
> /morten
>
> $ echo ABCabc|grep --color=3Dauto B
> ABCabc <<< B is red
>
> $ echo ABCabc|grep --color=3Dauto b
> ABCabc <<< b is red
>
> $ echo ABCabc|grep -i --color=3Dauto b
> ABCabc <<< B and b is red
>
> $ echo ABCabc|grep -i --color=3Dauto B
> ABCabc <<< nothing is red ???

Whatever caused this has been fixed on Cygwin 1.7, where it's working fine.

And

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