grep, etc

[Bob Stockler]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:12:28PM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
| Bob Stockler propounded (on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:31:43PM -0400):
| | I have a little perl program (cgrep) that prints N (default 3)
| | lines on each side of a line matching a pattern.  If you want
| | an uneven number of lines that would be fine (though slower that
| | the AWK program), but if you wanted an even number of lines its
| | output would have to be piped through grep -v to remove either
| | the first or last line.
| 
| How is that any handier than the -C (or the -A and -B) options of GNU
| grep?

I don't know how it differs because I've neve used GNU grep.

I also don't know where I got it or how long ago it was because
I just edited it to change its first line from:

     #!/usr/local/bin/perl
to:
     #!/usr/bin/perl

so it must have been some while ago,

Bob

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