Re^2: Searching your code

Maybe a bit OT, but what does the -2 option mean ?

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Re^3: Searching your code by trammell (Priest) on Dec 15, 2004 at 15:06 UTC
Your `grep` may not support this option, but mine does (from `man grep`): `-C [NUM], -NUM, --context[=NUM] Print NUM lines (default 2) of output context.` [download] In other words it prints some lines surrounding the match line. Very helpful when dealing with multi-line statements.	[reply] [d/l]