Re: Fwd: playing with IFS

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2026-04-13 11:30, dana wrote:
> On Mon 13 Apr 2026, at 11:56, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > If you are capturing the output of grep in a variable it won't do any
> > coloring at all unless you force it with --color=always. I would
> > normally leave it off when operating grep programmatically... not sure
> > why you'd want to capture it.
> i assume it's an interactive wrapper for gnu grep that trims leading
> white space from the matched lines
>
> ripgrep has a --trim flag for this btw:
Cool.  No need to reinvent the wheel.  So many greps!  I have the 
standard version but I'll download that.  Now ... if there was a grep 
that permitted a sequential search ....