Re: [bug #24290] option to output all lines

[db]

On Thursday 18 September 2008, 09:12, Max Waterman wrote:

> Grep has nice options to match regular expressions/patterns and
> highlight them so that the user can easily see them.
>
> I find a need to have grep output all lines, and just hightlight the
> matches as they go by. This is as oppose to it only outputting lines
> that contain a match.

This is easily achieved with

grep --color -e 'pattern' -e '^'

(for example)