Re: Using grep (or some other tool) to highlight, instead of grepping?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:48:23AM CEST:
> 
> 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|$'

Erm, or just
   grep --color=auto -e foo -e '$'

> Hmm.  Using ^ instead of $ destroys the coloring, that looks like a bug
> (Debian package grep-2.5.1.ds2-6).

Seems to have been fixed since upstream.

Cheers,
Ralf