Color regex matches - without dropping misses

Question

When using grep --color=always I can get pretty color highlighting for regex matches.

However, grep only returns lines with at least one match.

Answer 1

I'm digging this little python utility. If not on debian, use alien to convert to rpm.

http://korpus.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/grc.html

regexp=.*red
colours="\033[38;5;160m"
count=once

This is a nice page on terminal colors.

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/terminal_colours/

(Queen's english is so colourful.)