Thread: pipe grep and less

so theres command

code:

man -k mail

which lists commands contain keyword "mail" in description.
want output of command in less , words highlighted grep.

code:

man -k mail | grep mail | less

the command doesn't work, how fix it?

posted l3ecl

i want output of command in less , words highlighted grep.

how this?

code:

man -k mail | grep --color=always -i mail | less --raw-control-chars

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