Handy Little Trick

[Myles Green]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 06:42:59PM -0500, someone claiming to be Kurt 
Wall wrote:
> This is *so* cool:
> 
> Highlight occurences of a word in a file:
> 
> $ grep --color <word> <file>
> 
> This will highlight each appearance of <word> in <file>.
> 
> Kurt
> -- 
> "Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even
> one which cannot be justified on any other grounds."
> 		-- J. Finnegan, USC.

schweet!

You've just *got* to love Linux (and the Gnu utilities...), you can use 
it (them) for years and still discover kewl new things to put a smile on 
your face. (^8

Myles

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