I'm on OSX, but I suspect this doesn't make a big difference for this question.In my .bash_profile, I aliased grep to get color outputs by default:alias grep='grep --color=always'I commonly run searches for content within files in my repositories in ways similar to:grep --include=*.cpp -Ern . -e (foo|bar)but I often want to further refine the results, typically piping with say grep -v colorbar.The problem is that the second grep command then runs on the colored ouput, and doesn't seem to be able to match the exclusion patterns because of this.Obviously I could run the first search without colors and then everything would work fine, but I would prefer to keep them if there is a way to work around this?
Filtering the colored output of grep
grep;colors