grep replacement

David Robinson david at elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
Fri May 27 06:47:11 AEST 1988


In article <2978 at ihlpe.ATT.COM>, dcon at ihlpe.ATT.COM (452is-Connet) writes:
> 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.
 
> Also, what line number it was found on.
 


How about "grep -n"?



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