Hi, Heard my name mentioned:)
I try to use colour to increase the information density of what I'm looking at. Not everything benefits from it but many things do, and in different ways. Colour use should be thought through and designed in where you can - human usability studies help here. KDE, MicroSoft, IBM and others have done alot of work on this. Cheers, J.J. On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 11:47 -0700, Mark Carlson 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
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