Re: Re: Re: Grep - print matched line and next N lines

You make it sound like that behavior is non-standard in some way, but it is exactly what standard GNU grep does for the -A (--after-context) option and is typically what people would expect if you say your grep will print N lines following each matching line.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Grep - print matched line and next N lines by runrig (Abbot) on Aug 13, 2002 at 17:15 UTC
..but it is exactly what standard GNU grep does .. Ahh, well that explains it. Although I've heard GNU grep has this option, I don't have GNU grep on my system, so I'm not familiar with exactly how it behaves (and not having GNU grep is why I wrote this in the first place). Anyway, I've reversed the meaning of the option-r to make your suggested behavior the default :-)	[reply]