Recent Questions - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange · Apr 7, 2011
Where do my ANSI escape codes go when I pipe to another process? Can I keep them?
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I sometime want to pipe the color-coded output fror a process, eg. grep... but when I pipe it to another process, eg. sed, the color codes are lost... Is the some way to keep thes codes intact ? Here is an example which loses the colored output: echo barney | grep barney | sed -n 1,$\ p
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