Colorized grep — viewing the entire file with highlighted matches

Question

I find grep\'s --color=always flag to be tremendously useful. However, grep only prints lines with matches (unless you ask for context lines). Give

Answer 1

Here's something along the same lines. Chances are, you'll be using less anyway, so try this:

less -p pattern file

It will highlight the pattern and jump to the first occurrence of it in the file.

You can jump to the next occurence with n and to the previous occurence with p. Quit with q.