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How do I highlight certain word using the cat command on the terminal?

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Type cat (the name of your textfile) | grep (The word you want to highlight), e.g cat textfile | grep in.

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    This would only work if grep is aliased with --color. In addition, it is not needed to cat and then grep, you can just grep some_word textfile Commented Jan 25, 2017 at 13:59
  • To be fair, the question requires the use of cat :) Commented Jan 25, 2017 at 14:32

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