bash: color matching string

Question

I am looking for a command which would color a matching string in text. I.e. I am looking for functionality similar to what grep does, but I want to see the complete text not only the matching lines

Can somebody please advise whether such tool exists, or how I could best achieve this ?

Are you looking for this: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/366/convince-grep-to-output-all-lines-not-just-those-with-matches — Vombat, Dec 01 '13 at 17:18

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '13 at 18:02

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Use ack:

ack --passthru something /some/file

The result will look like this: enter image description here

answered Dec 01 '13 at 18:02

Elias Probst

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