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When I run:

git branch -a

I git a nice green and red colored output, but if I pipe the above command through grep:

git branch -a | grep -v "master"

I lose my colored output. Is there a...

Explain this?

[cmuench@web01 bin]$ ls | grep -e "crd\|cs"
crd
cs
[cmuench@web01 bin]$ CLONES=`ls | grep -e "crd\|cs"`;echo $CLONES;
crd cs

[cmuench@web01 bin]$ CLONES=`ls | grep -e...

I figured it out I have to escape \$

It also appears I have to escape backticks (`)

Why is this?

Why can't I do this?
eval "TEST=5;echo $TEST;";


THIS WORKS!!
TEST=5;echo $TEST;