Handy Little Trick

[Gary Sublett]

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On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 07:45:06 -0800
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On 11/21/03 15:42, 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>.
> 
> Hrmmm, which version of grep does this?  It doesn't seem to support
> that switch in grep-2.4.2.


grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1 supports this switch, don't know about earlier
versions.

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