I see the same results as Baku using a different third-party client (Voyager).
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Searching for communities matching “brisbane” shows one [email protected] and two others (Brisbane trains, and also a community on a different instance).
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When I view the Brisbane community sorted by new, I see two separate posts about water showing up next to each other, not nested the way that cross-posts usually show.
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 evensed -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.