Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:9093 comp.unix.questions:7393 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ukma!husc6!bu-cs!bzs From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: grep replacement Message-ID: <23133@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 5 Jun 88 01:37:09 GMT References: <136@rubmez.UUCP> <449@happym.UUCP> <7944@alice.UUCP> <8012@brl-smoke.ARPA> Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci. Lines: 17 In-reply-to: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA's message of 4 Jun 88 21:28:19 GMT From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) >In article <7944@alice.UUCP> andrew@alice.UUCP writes: >> the right thing to do is to write a context program that takes >>input looking like "filename:linenumber:goo" and prints whatever context ... > >Heavens -- a tool user. I thought that only Neanderthals were still alive. >I guess Bell Labs escaped the plague. Almost, unless the original input was produced by a pipeline, in which case this (putative) post-processor can't help unless you tee the mess to a temp file, yup, mess is the right word. Or maybe only us Neanderthals are interested in tools which work on pipes? Have they gone out of style? -Barry "Ulak of Org" Shein, Boston University