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- From: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller)
- Subject: Is that all that the GREP family can do?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.201016.27528@starbase.trincoll.edu>
- Sender: usenet@starbase.trincoll.edu (SACM Usenet News)
- Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:10:16 GMT
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- I'm just moving to Unix after many years with VMS/VAX
- and I miss some of the VMS nifties. Such as the SEARCH
- command with the /Windows option that enables one to specify
- as many lines above and below the target string as one wishes.
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- Is there nothing like this on Unix? I can't believe that it's
- so, but I haven't found it.
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- Norman Miller
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