Im using grep for searching pattern in huge log files, since it's a log file and i want to see what's going on around the matches, i usually do grep -C 3 -color ...
however, after reading a lot of logs i find a little annoying to distinguish between every 7 lines, which line belongs to which match, so i want to find a way to distinguish between each matches (and the 6 lines surround it)
the thing i think would be helpful and easier for my eyes to read is to make each match in a different color - of course not really a new color for each match but just pick a few colors, let's say 3 colors such that matches will be colored in that sequence of colors, for example if I got 4 matches they will be colored as the following:
prefix1 match1 // purple color: start prefix2 match1 prefix3 match1 match1: suffix1 match1 suffix2 match1 suffix3 match1 // purple color: end prefix1 match2 // blue color: start prefix2 match2 prefix3 match2 match2: suffix1 match2 suffix2 match2 suffix3 match2 // blue color: end prefix1 match3 // green color: start prefix2 match3 prefix3 match3 match3: suffix1 match3 suffix2 match3 suffix3 match3 // green color: end prefix1 match4 // purple color: start prefix2 match4 prefix3 match4 match4: suffix1 match4 suffix2 match4 suffix3 match4 // purple color: end 7 lines each color
So what essentially im looking for is a way to tell grep to do that, or a command to redirect grep to so that it will be colored as above
