Timeline for How to highlight a word in the output of "cat"?
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| Nov 8, 2022 at 18:26 | comment | added | payne | Would you mind editing the answer to provide a function for this? I'd love to have hl ("highlight") declared in my .zshrc. Something like cat foo.txt | hl bar. But it should also work when provided a file (hl "bar" foo.txt). | |
| Dec 25, 2013 at 6:29 | vote | accept | Meysam | ||
| Dec 25, 2013 at 6:24 | comment | added | Chris Down | @Meysam You can do so using the GREP_COLOR(S) environment variable. gnu.org/software/grep/manual/html_node/… | |
| Dec 25, 2013 at 6:20 | comment | added | Meysam | Thank you. The highlighted word is currently red on my computer. Is it possible to customize the color as well? | |
| Dec 25, 2013 at 6:13 | history | answered | Chris Down | CC BY-SA 3.0 |