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From: daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <1463@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 88 04:08:03 GMT
References: <7882@alice.UUCP> <5630@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <6866@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <2978@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton)
Organization: is pretty bad/My method of
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In article <2978@ihlpe.ATT.COM> dcon@ihlpe.UUCP (David Connet) writes:
|Also, what line number it was found on.

Already there: grep -n.

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.

Please. Maybe "grep -k" where k is any integer giving the number of lines
of context on each side of grep, default is 0. Oh, but hey, _you're_ designing
it! :-)
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