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hi all.. Is there any text viewer highlighting some user-specific text.? for example, I need to check up a log file which has a thousand of lines of text message. ...
  1. 01-02-2007 #1
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    I am looking for a text viewer with highlighting

    hi all..

    Is there any text viewer highlighting some user-specific text.?

    for example, I need to check up a log file which has a thousand of lines of text message.

    But what I want to see is just error messages. so I want to highlight them to recognize more easily.

    What kind of app should I get?

    I am using SuSE 10.0.

    Thanks.
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    Hi.

    There is an option in grep to color (colour) the hits. In a reasonably standard terminal emulator, these should show up ... cheers, drl
    --colour[=WHEN], --color[=WHEN]
    Surround the matching string with the marker find in GREP_COLOR
    environment variable. WHEN may be `never', `always', or ` -- man grep
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    Hi.

    As an after-thought, if you need context, grep allows you to request the display of lines before and after the matching lines -- details in man grep.

    If you need the entire file listed with specific lines high-lighted you may be able to get some code and ideas from the thread at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=507423 ... cheers, drl
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    vi and vim can do highlighted text, last time I checked :P
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