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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
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Date: 10 Jun 88 09:34:32 GMT
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In article <8022@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> Or, getting back to context-grep, what good would it do to show
> context from a pipe?  To do anything with the information (other than
> stare at it), you'd need to produce it again.

Why do we have diff -c?  Generally, to stare at.  (The only other use I
know of is producing diffs for Larry Wall's patch program.)

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