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Question by kissedsmiley
Submitted on 12/18/2003
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how can I perform a search with contextual (above/below) text included? I'm trying to emulate the old DEC VMS command such as "search /window=(3,10) stringToFind filesToSearch.". I'm on a Mac OSX 10.2.4 with the default UNIX shell, TCSH. the output from running "search /win=1,4 'such as' thisfile." would be the line with 'such as' as well as 1 line above it and 4 lines below, ie 5 lines total: --------output example starts: syntax from VMS search /win=1,4 'such as' thisfile --------output example output starts text included? I'm trying to emulate the old DEC VMS command such as "search /window=(3,10) stringToFind filesToSearch.". I'm on a Mac OSX 10.2.4 with the default UNIX shell, --------output example ends <this is an edited version of my question>

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Answer by llagos@amr.cl
Submitted on 3/17/2004
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Use find and grep as the -exec parameter: Use -B, -C for grep. $ find $HOME/docs -exec grep -B 1 -C 4 sometext {} \; Use GNU grep! (www.gnu.org)

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