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Subject: Re: multios stripping colors?
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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
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On 31/01/18 11:30 PM, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
>
> Some commands, make coloured output conditional on whether their
> standard output points to a terminal. For an example, try:
>    git log | cat
>
> Oliver
>
By gum, that's it.

     egrep --color=always

... solves the problem.  As you say, egrep was trying to be clever 
there, detecting the output to the file and killing the color, but you 
can force the issue with 'color=always'.  Thanks Oliver, there is always 
a way.