On 2007-12-25 10:20:43 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
>  I think grep checks whether its output file descriptor is a tty to
>  enable escape sequences.  I'll reassign to grep and suggest this;

This workaround would be bad: if one redirects the output to a file
and "cat" the file, one wouldn't have the expected behavior. There
should not be an output difference whether the file descriptor is a
tty or not.

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