If one doesn't need the extended functionality of Grep, they can search and highlight directly with Less:

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we can have full syntax highlight within less, just use pygmentize. https://superuser.com/questions/7158...light-via-less
we also have another highlighter tool, a generic colorizer: grc https://github.com/garabik/grc
(interestingly it is not that popular)

when someone wants a program like XYZ or FOO (pick any program) to be ported to Linux, are they wanting the original developer to release a Linux version for about the same commercial price, likely in a binary form, perhaps with run restrictions to avoid theft of the software, or are they wanting a new development by a different developer, perhaps free, perhaps open source (ready to compile), but definitely for Linux, and possibly also for BSD?

me, personally, i like FOSS so i can improve it or customize it. i can't program in every language, so it's kinda limited for me.

It's great to see a space where users can express their needs directly.

For FAT32, fatattr can view and modify Windows file attributes on Linux. For NTFS, there is setfattr. But nothing like this seems to exist for exFAT yet.

Also, there is currently no way to set Windows attributes in 7z archives on Linux. allows at least viewing such attributes.