I wasn't sure if this fell better under meditations but I think it belongs in SOPW. I was thinking of grep, and how it would be nice if it showed N specified lines before and after the match to give you the context of the text. Now it is probably my ignorance but I couldn't find a unix command to do this. (There has to be one right?)

Any way, as I needed a break from my current work, I grabbed a copy of tcgrep from the Perl Power Tools collection and modified it to show you N lines before and after. I haven't posted the code because I haven't added the command line options yet to let you configure it's display, but before I take the effort, I wanted to make sure of a couple things.

  1. That this doesn't already exist as a standard UNIX tool ( I figure there must be).
  2. If by the incredible chance it doesn't, should I submit it as a patch? to PPT or just note where it's pulled from and their copyright and call it grope :)


-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

In reply to Grepping surrounding lines, is this redundant? by shotgunefx

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