I’ve written a tool that some of you might find useful. It’s really simple, it just highlights the given regular expression with the specified color in your terminal. It’s sort of like grep --color pattern except it prints both the matching lines and the non-matching lines.
The raw script can be found here. It currently lives at github, which is a bit of an experiment for me. I’m not sure if I plan to make any modifications to it, but I figured that it was as good of an opportunity as any to give it a try.