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

You can also create an alias. Add this function in your .bashrc (or .bash_profile on osx)

function grepe {
    grep --color -E "$1|$" $2
}

You can now use the alias like this: "ifconfig | grepe inet" or "grepe css index.html".

(PS: don't forget to source ~/.bashrc to reload bashrc on current session)