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From: sef@csun.UUCP (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
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Date: 1 Jun 88 17:05:11 GMT
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Something I'd like to see is this: grep '^<somepattern>$^<morepatterns>$...'.
While this would, of course, not be trivial, I think it would probably be
more general (and therefore more in the "spirit" of Unix(tm)) than showing n
lines around a matched pattern.
But that's just my opinion.

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