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From: stan@sdba.UUCP (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
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Date: 27 May 88 18:49:59 GMT
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Posted: Fri May 27 14:49:59 1988

> 
> 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.
> 
> 	-- Alan		..!cit-vax!elroy!alan		* "But seriously, what
> 			elroy!alan@csvax.caltech.edu	   could go wrong?"


	Along this same general line it would be nice to be abble to
	look for paterns that span lines.  But perhaps this would be
	tom complete a change in the philosophy of grep ?

	stan


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