Highlighting text with cat

[bald_pig]

Afternoon,

 

I've had a student come to me asking for help with an piece of work set by OCR, which asks the student to use a suitably modified cat command to highlight given words.

 

Now, as far as I'm aware, and as far I can find, cat can't do this, even when piping the output to grep!

 

Any ideas?

[unixman_again]

cat can't but less can.

[3s-gtech]

I'm such a noob, I had no idea but I pictured this:

 

 

As for the actual solution...

[fiza]

I'm such a noob, I had no idea but I pictured this:

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]37468[/ATTACH]

 

As for the actual solution...

 

me too!

[bald_pig]

Solutions, you can either pipe to less -p or to grep -color