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Old 01-07-2009
well other than "less" anything else u can advice
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Old 01-07-2009
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Originally Posted by thepurple
well other than "less" anything else u can advice
Use perl to replace the functionality of GNU grep --color and pipe that into more:
Code:
$!/bin/ksh
perl -e '$re=shift @ARGV; while (<>) { s/($re)/\e[7m$1\e[0m/og; print; }' "$@" |more ;
}

This script will act like grep: you provide a regular expression and list of files (or it reads from standard input). You will not be able to pass any grep-like options (ie, if you need -l or -n, you'll have to do more complex argument handling, hard-code it in the regexp; if you need case-insensitivity, you can include it in the perl regular expression).
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Old 01-07-2009
less can highlight the string searched

less -p STRING filename.

-p: the pattern to search.
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