From b4246f1a52d29c2a5ce920bc045904550bc8264e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Duckles <tony@nynim.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:23:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] .bashrc: For Solaris use GNU grep and sed

---
 .bashrc | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.bashrc b/.bashrc
index e9f61a9..2bc377c 100644
--- a/.bashrc
+++ b/.bashrc
@@ -204,6 +204,12 @@ alias du1='du -h --max-depth=1'
 alias fn='find . -name'
 alias hi='history | tail -20'
 
+# For Solaris, use GNU versions of grep and sed
+if [ "$UNAME" = SunOS ]; then
+    test -x /usr/gnu/bin/grep && alias grep="/usr/gnu/bin/grep"
+    test -x /usr/gnu/bin/sed  && alias sed="/usr/gnu/bin/sed"
+fi
+
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # BASH COMPLETION
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -271,8 +277,17 @@ alias ll.="ls -ld .*"
 alias lla="ls -la"
 
 # setup color grep output if available
-test -n "$COLORS" &&
-    alias grep="command grep --color=auto"
+if [ -n "$COLORS" ]; then
+    case "$UNAME" in
+        "SunOS")
+            # For Solaris, use the GNU version of grep for color support
+            test -x /usr/gnu/bin/grep && alias grep="/usr/gnu/bin/grep --color=auto"
+            ;;
+        *)
+            alias grep="command grep --color=auto"
+            ;;
+    esac
+fi
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # MISC COMMANDS
-- 
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