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This works nicely. I also found something called GREP_OPTIONS where the "-d skip" could be added instead. However, some bright spark somewhere decided that GREP_OPTIONS has been deprecated, and prints an annoying message when used, alas. So adding this as an alias (to profile or bashrc or whereever) is the best option. alias grep='/bin/grep -d skip'
– William
Commented Mar 21, 2018 at 19:22
@William - they'll remove GREP_OPTIONS due to problems it causes when writing portable scripts - hence the warning...
– don_crissti
Commented Mar 21, 2018 at 21:13

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