Windowed search capability?
Peter Scott
pjs at aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov
Mon Oct 8 09:55:18 AEST 1990
Second try at posting; occasionally xrn gives me a "possible mail
alias loop" and barfs when I post to comp.unix.questions. Why
only this group, I cannot tell.
I would like to have under Unix the capability I have with the VMS
SEARCH utility to display a window of (m,n) lines around the line(s)
containing the search string found in the file. I have yet to find
a way of doing it with awk, more, sed, or *grep.
Any solutions? I don't mind a long command (I can alias it) or even
a shell script (I suppose there will be the obligatory 1-line solution
in perl :-)) but I don't want a program; I want something that uses
utilities that come with all flavors of Unix (okay, exception made
for perl).
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