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From: rfinch@caldwr.water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Fuzzy grep?
Keywords: grep
Message-ID: <242@locke.water.ca.gov>
Date: 2 Nov 90 23:34:34 GMT
Organization: Calif. Depart. of Water Resources, Sac.
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Is there something like grep, except it will (easlly) search an entire
file (not just line-by-line) for regexp's near each other? Ideally it
would rank hits by how much or how close they match, e.g.

fzgrep 'abc.*123' filename

would return hits not by line number but by how close abc & 123 are
found together.  Also it wouldn't matter what order the regexp's are.
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