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From: daveb@rtech.UUCP
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Subject: cgrep alternatives
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Date: Wed, 14-May-86 20:05:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 14 20:05:21 1986
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A while back a 'cgrep' program was posted.  While I found the idea good
(I've often wanted context around grep output), it seemed annoying that
the program required additional arguments to get context, and didn't
take regular expressions.

Then I remembered the 'context' program posted about 9 months ago, and
used to decipher the output of compiler error messages.

	grep -n pattern files | context

does very nearly just what I want, without having to think about new
tools and new flags.

-db
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