Handy Little Trick

[Kurt Wall]

Consuming 0.7K bytes, Net Llama! blathered:
> 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.

Has it in 2.5... The ChangeLog shows it got in in 2001-02-09 as a
patch from Ulrich Drepper of glibc fame.

Kurt
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