grep replacement

[der Mouse]

In article <1030 at sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, nelson at sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
> In article <23133 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs at bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>> In article <7944 at alice.UUCP> andrew at alice.UUCP writes:
>>> the right thing to do is to write a context program that takes
>>> input looking like "filename:linenumber:goo" and prints whatever
>>> context ...
>> Almost, unless the original input was produced by a pipeline, [...]
>> unless you tee the mess to a temp file, yup, mess is the right word.
> How about:
> alias with_context tee >/tmp/$$ | $* | context -f/tmp/$$

This assumes that (a) there's room on /tmp to save the whole thing and
(b) that you don't mind rereading it all to find the appropriate line.

Both assumptions are commonly violated, in my experience.

					der Mouse

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