[net.sources.d] cgrep & context

allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (05/18/86)

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Quoted from <256@rtech.UUCP> ["cgrep alternatives"], by daveb@rtech.UUCP...
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| A while back a 'cgrep' program was posted.  While I found the idea good
| (I've often wanted context around grep output), it seemed annoying that
| the program required additional arguments to get context, and didn't
| take regular expressions.
| 
| Then I remembered the 'context' program posted about 9 months ago, and
| used to decipher the output of compiler error messages.
| 
| 	grep -n pattern files | context
| 
| does very nearly just what I want, without having to think about new
| tools and new flags.
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I wondered when someone would notice that.  That's exactly why I wrote it
(that, and ``make | context'' -- VERY useful).

--Brandon
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