How to modify the cat command

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So I'm trying to show the contents of a text file with every occurrence of a particular word that is highlighted. I don't want to use grep as that only shows the sentences with that word in. I want to use the cat command.

Why do you want to do this ? – Garf365 May 09 '16 at 08:37 — Garf365, May 09 '16 at 08:37
Where are the words highlighted? – Walter A May 09 '16 at 08:55 — Walter A, May 09 '16 at 08:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 09 '16 at 08:15

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I still suggest you use the grep command, and specify a big context value to print out lines "near" the matching lines, e.g:

grep -C 999999999 needle haystack

answered May 09 '16 at 08:15

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 10 '16 at 08:26

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Following will print whole file, and color only the matching text

   grep --color -E "PATTERN|$" data

answered May 10 '16 at 08:26

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How to modify the cat command

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