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

To highlight patterns while viewing the whole file, h can do this.

Plus it uses different colors for different patterns.

cat FILE | h 'PAT1' 'PAT2' ...

You can also pipe the output of h to less -R for better reading.

To grep and use 1 color for each pattern, cxpgrep could be a good fit.