#! /bin/sh # showmatch -- mark string that matches pattern pattern=$1; shift nawk 'match($0,pattern) > 0 { s = substr($0,1,RSTART-1) m = substr($0,1,RLENGTH) gsub (/[^\b- ]/, " ", s) gsub (/./, "^", m) printf "%s\n%s%s\n", $0, s, m }' pattern="$pattern" $*