grep replacement

[der Mouse]

In article <8022 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> Or, getting back to context-grep, what good would it do to show
> context from a pipe?  To do anything with the information (other than
> stare at it), you'd need to produce it again.

Why do we have diff -c?  Generally, to stare at.  (The only other use I
know of is producing diffs for Larry Wall's patch program.)

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