Solaris

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).

less -p STRING filename.

-p: the pattern to search.