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From: david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <6877@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 26 May 88 20:47:11 GMT
References: <7882@alice.UUCP> <5630@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <6866@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <2978@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL
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In article <2978@ihlpe.ATT.COM>, dcon@ihlpe.ATT.COM (452is-Connet) writes:
> In article <6866@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> alan@cogswell.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer) writes:

> >One thing I would _love_ is to be able to find the context of what I've
> >found, for example, to find the two (n?) surrounding lines.  I have wanted
> >to do this many times and there is no good way.
 
> Also, what line number it was found on.
 


How about "grep -n"?



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