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How to grep two patterns in a line with correct coloring?

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 00:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn <at> spocom.com>
To: 22656 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22656: How to grep two patterns in a line with correct coloring?
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:28:37 -0800

On 2016-02-13, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know that I can use this to grep two patterns. But it can not
> highlight both patterns.
> 
> grep word1 FILE | grep word2

This seems to work:

    grep --color=always word1 FILE | grep word2

Regards,
Gary
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