Suggestion for a new option

[Matthew Wakeling]

I have a suggestion for a new option for grep, which is really rather 
obvious and simple to implement, and comes about by me running commands 
like:

ps auxww | grep something

I would like an option that would make grep output the first line (or two 
- an extended option maybe) regardless of whether that line matches. That 
way, I would get the titles at the top of my report, which would be 
useful.

What exactly grep should do when searching several files with this option 
switched on is up for debate. My guess is the best method would be to 
output the first line(s) of each file that have a matching line, although 
that may not be the easiest to implement. This option would also interact 
with the -A and -C options.

Is there anyone with a burning desire to implement this, or shall I have a 
go? Any strong opinions on whether the option would be accepted into main 
grep, or what the option name/letter should be?

Matthew

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