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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.
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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