Cheese with Japanese curry? Sounds pretty whacky, whatever shape it’s in.

Also there’s an elegant solution to keeping some rice visible out of the curry and it doesn’t involve any extra ingredients.

Color codes will pass through pipes just like any other output.

In this case, your grep is being smarter than you want and actually parsing the incoming color codes itself.

You can try a simpler program like head, tail, or even sed -n /ii/p to see it for yourself.

You can also control GNU grep’s color processing with --color but you may not find exactly what you seek.

Planet.