grep, etc

[Bill Vermillion]

On Sat, Aug 14 01:18 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small children 
were reduced to tears as Fairlight confessed to all:" 

> You'll never BELIEVE what Jay Ashworth said here...:

> > Actually, newer greps (GNUer greps?) do permit you to specify a window
> > of context around the matched line; in particular, GNU grep (found on
> > my RedHat 7.3 Linux, and likely most others, supports the -A and -B
> > options for this.

> Interesting.  I never bothered, really.  I didn't learn on GNU greps
> originally, and had my methodology set wayyy back in '89.

> I'll probably keep this in mind though when I next need to do it.  The
> problem is that unless you have a guaranteed GNU grep, it's possibly
> (probably?) not portable scripting.

After having no power for 95 hours, and expecting it to be out for
at least 3 more days, things are running here again.

You mentioned you didn't learn on GNU greps originally.

You might check into pcregrep.   It is defined as 'a grep with
Perl-compatible regular expressions'.

Bill
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