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by **Dorai Sitar** » Fri, 24 Sep 1999 04:00:00

A colleague at work showed me the -p option of egrep on
our AIX machines and it's so useful I'm smitten. (It
specifies a paragraph separater pattern, so the entire
paragraph containing the matching line is returned.)

However, I find that the egrep on my home PC running
Red Hat Linux 6 has no such option. Does anyone know
where I can get this improved egrep? Thanks.

by **Alain Magloi** » Fri, 24 Sep 1999 04:00:00

: A colleague at work showed me the -p option of egrep on
: our AIX machines and it's so useful I'm smitten. (It
: specifies a paragraph separater pattern, so the entire
: paragraph containing the matching line is returned.)

: However, I find that the egrep on my home PC running
: Red Hat Linux 6 has no such option. Does anyone know
: where I can get this improved egrep? Thanks.

I know of cgrep, but don't have any URL.
But You may emulate that with -A -B -C options
that shows you the context of the match.
See man grep, info grep or grep --help for more.

--
au revoir, alain
----
Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!

by **Ken Pizzi** » Sat, 25 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Quote:>A colleague at work showed me the -p option of egrep on
>our AIX machines and it's so useful I'm smitten. (It
>specifies a paragraph separater pattern, so the entire
>paragraph containing the matching line is returned.)

>However, I find that the egrep on my home PC running
>Red Hat Linux 6 has no such option. Does anyone know
>where I can get this improved egrep? Thanks.

Do a ftp search for "agrep". It has this capablilty, in addition
to other nifty features. (I know that current versions of agrep
are available as part of the glimpse package, but older stand-alone
versions should still be available somewhere on the 'net;
perhaps even as a binary on sunsite.unc.edu's mirrors.)

--Ken Pizzini

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egrep with -p option for Red Hat

egrep with -p option for Red Hat

egrep with -p option for Red Hat

egrep with -p option for Red Hat