Re: OT: HP-UX 11/grep

Vergara, Michael (TEM) wrote:

> Hi Gang...sorry about being kinda OT...but...
>
> A long time ago, when I used VMS, I could scan a file and see
> a set number of lines before and after the line I was looking=20
> for. I don't even remember the command nowadays.
>
> Does anyone know of an analogous command that can be used in the
> *NIX environment?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

<snip>
can also do like this:

grep -nr3 <search_term> <filename>
shows the line number and the 3 lines prededing and succeeding the matches

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