context-grep

[Rich Salz]

= I recall some time ago there was a discussion of some kind of
= variation on grep that could be used to show, e.g.,
= all lines in a file containing "foo" occurring within, say,
= 6 lines of a line containing "bar".

In <2557 at eos.UUCP> jaw at eos.UUCP (James A. Woods) writes:
=sure, GNU e?grep would handle this as:
=	grep -6 bar file | grep foo
=thank mike haertel.  it has been available via 'ftp' from prep.ai.mit.edu
=for quite some time.
I will be posting it in comp.sources.unix within a week.

James is too modest.

=p.s. anyone using the original fast e?grep under the stead of 4.3-tahoe
=should switch to GNU grep now.
Yes, indeedy, they surely should.

Look for it.
	/rich $alz
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