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Re: Bug#1006885: ITP: lumin -- pattern match highlighter



 ❦  7 March 2022 18:33 +01, Adam Borowski:

>> lumin highlights matches to a specified pattern (string or regular
>> expression) in files, using color. This is similar to grep with
>> colorized output, but it outputs all lines in the given files, not
>> only matching lines.
>
> .--====[ ~/bin/hl ]
> #!/bin/sh
> sed 's/'"$*"'/\c[[1;33m&\c[[0m/g'
> `----

grep --color -C400000000000 pattern

There are other suggestions here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/981601/colorized-grep-viewing-the-entire-file-with-highlighted-matches
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