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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#47001: Feature request: give a meaning to -A/-B/-C with -o |
Date: | Mon, 08 Mar 2021 08:21:27 +0000 |
Hi list,Grep gives no meaning to the -A/-B/-C flags when they are used together with the -o flag (and prints a warning when they are used together).
I suggest to give them a specific meaning when the -o flag is used, namely to print NUM _characters_ of trailing/leading/output context around the match.
Currently this behavior can be obtained with "grep -oE '.{0,A}expose_frame.{0,B}'", where A and B are the number of leading and trailing context characters, but it is not efficient, and can become very inefficient for "large" values of A and B (say, 40).
Thanks, Gregory
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