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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <8098@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 88 14:27:04 GMT
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Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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The "new" grep's -b option provides everything necessary to do "efficient"
post-processor-based context display (file offsets rather than line numbers).

Since there's a proposed change in the semantics of "-b", I've suggested
changing its name (to "-B" or "-z" or whatever) to avoid quiet surprises from
existing scripts.
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