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On 09/03/18 07:20 PM, Aaron Schrab wrote:
>
> No, that file is not included in any Debian package:
So I've since discovered.  God knows where it came from, it's nothing of 
mine, that's for sure.  Apologies to Debian for the suggestion.  I've 
since killed it.
>
>
>
> Perhaps something like the following? This doesn't include the doing 
> the find(1), instead it's designed to get the text to search on 
> STDIN.  It also doesn't use the $wwild or $ccase variables, which I 
> didn't see defined anywhere. But that would be easy to add.
>
> No use of eval here. Besides being safer, that also tends to be more 
> readable; although the use of recursion here cuts down on that 
> improvement.
>
> Despite having zsh on the #! line, this would work with bash as well.
>
> #!/bin/zsh -u
> # Multi-color grep
>
> __mcgrep() {
>  local color=$1; shift
>  local pattern="$1"; shift
>
>  if [[ $# = 0 ]]; then
>    # No more patterns, just pass through the input
>    cat
>  else
>    __mcgrep $((color + 1)) "$@"
>  fi |
>    GREP_COLOR="01;$color" grep --color=always "$pattern"
> }
>
> # Start with yellow, then blue, magenta, cyan.
> __mcgrep 33 "$@"
>
Thanks, that's interesting, I'll experiment with it tomorrow.