grep replacement

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <2312 at bgsuvax.UUCP> by kutz at bgsuvax.UUCP (Kenneth Kutz):
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| In article <6866 at elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, alan at cogswell.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer) writes:
| > 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.
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	grep -n foo ./bar | context 2

I posted context to net.sources back when it existed; someone may still have
archives from that time, if not I'll retrieve my sources and repost it.  It
takes lines of the basic form

	filename ... linenumber : ...

and displays context around the specified lines.  I use this with grep quite
often; it also works with cc (pcc, not Xenix cc) error messages.
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