grep replacement

[andrew at alice.UUCP]

> Almost, unless the original input was produced by a pipeline, in which
> case this (putative) post-processor can't help unless you tee the mess
> to a temp file, yup, mess is the right word.
> Or maybe only us Neanderthals are interested in tools which work on
> pipes? Have they gone out of style?


the problem is in the limited plumbing available in the current flock of shells.
i mean, the context stuff is exactly the same issue as glob expansion;
you either build into an ad hoc set of programs or let one program do it.