Hello Richard, * Richard Hartmann wrote on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:11:56PM CEST: > > grep --color=auto > > I was wondering if there is a tool that will allow me to simply > highlight whatever I am looking for without actually grepping.
I guess if you translate your basic regex into an extended one, then you should be able to use egrep/grep -E, and also match end-of-line: grep -E --color=auto 'foo|$' Hmm. Using ^ instead of $ destroys the coloring, that looks like a bug (Debian package grep-2.5.1.ds2-6). Other than that, editors can typically highlight search matches: vim -c 'set hls | /foo' FILE Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
