That does it. I read the -C option but misunderstood what it was meant for so didn't try it.
Thanks. On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- http://www.Radados.org
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