On 3/1/08, Royce Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any one using the command line long enough gets good with grep. I did. I > have been using grep as long as I have been using Linux. And all this time I > did not even know about the cool feature to colour highlight matching text. > grep --color works great. > > What I would like to know is how can I cat a file and see all the lines but > colour highlight matching text. As far as I know grep can show only the > lines that match or only the lines that do not match, I have not found any > way to make it show all the lines but just highlight the matching text. > > If anyone has an idea how to do that please let me know.
A bit of a hack: grep pattern file -C 1000000 It looks funny with multiple files though. As a side note, I recently added this exact feature (colorization + searching) to a customer's log viewer utility. It is amazing how much more efficient my development has become as a result! I think John Jardine can attest to that with his firewall log monitoring scripts as well. Colorization = good! -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
