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Old 07-26-2012
Adding Color using More
Daily Stupid Question:

When I use a cat with a grep I can see "blind SQL injection vulnerablity" highlighted as red and is easily readable

Code:
cat file |grep -i 'blind\ SQL\ injection\ vulnerability'

When I add a more to view the results page at a time, the color is taken away and is very hard to read.



Code:
cat file |grep -i 'blind\ SQL\ injection\ vulnerability'|more

How can I add the color when using more to view stuff page by page?
# 2  
Old 07-26-2012
Useless Use of Cat Award

Searching the manual page of grep for color, I find the --color option. Usually it only prints color when printing directly to a terminal -- color output would look ugly when dumped into a file -- but can be forced on with --color=always I believe.
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# 3  
Old 07-26-2012
Many thanks

added alias grep='grep --color=always' to my .bashrc, sourced it.

worked like a charm:

Code:
cat file |grep -i 'blind\ SQL\ injection\ vulnerability'|more

# 4  
Old 07-26-2012
Please read:

Useless Use of Cat Award

Code:
grep string filename

is better than
Code:
cat filename | grep string

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