grep replacement

[Chris Torek]

In article <144 at insyte.UUCP> jad at insyte.UUCP (Jill Diewald) writes:
-... data base tape contains very long lines, instead of separating
-each record with a newline, all the records may be on the same line.
-There is a defined record size which is used to determine when a
-record ends - instead of a newline.

Think `tools'.

-1) To be able to give grep (also awk, etc) a record size 
-which it would use instead of newlines.  

Use `dd | grep'.

-2) To be able to specify a field range (ie columns 20-30) for the 
-program to search - instead of the entire line/record.  In addition it 
-should be posible to specify several fields in one grep.

Use `dd | cut | grep'.
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