How to highlight certain word?

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How do I highlight certain word using the cat command on the terminal?

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 25 '17 at 14:47

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Type cat (the name of your textfile) | grep (The word you want to highlight), e.g cat textfile | grep in.

edited Jan 25 '17 at 14:47

phk

answered Jan 25 '17 at 13:46

smith

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This would only work if grep is aliased with --color. In addition, it is not needed to cat and then grep, you can just `grep some_word textfile` – Zumo de Vidrio Jan 25 '17 at 13:59
To be fair, the question requires the use of cat :) – dhag Jan 25 '17 at 14:32

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