Is there something which can be used to search and highlight terms in terminal output? I need to search for "Error" after running make.
Usually grep is used for plain searching. It would work like this:
make 2&>1 | grep Error
Or if there was a lot of output and you wanted to use a pager:
make 2>&1 | grep Error | less
However, if you want to see all the content, and not just the lines that match your search, you could install the ack-grep package, and then do this:
make 2>&1 | ack-grep --passthru Error
And if that generates a lot of output and you want to use a pager, you need a bit more syntax to preserve the color:
make 2>&1 | ack-grep --passthru Error --color | less -R
In all the examples I included 2>&1 which merges the STDERR and STDOUT output streams. Otherwise, you would only get STDOUT, which might not include all the errors.
One more variation is just to go straight into a pager and search within that:
make 2>&1 | less
One way to search in less is by typing / to enter a search term. See man less for more searching options.
Using the Search menu or a keyboard short-cut Shift+Ctrl+F
