05-28-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Smiling Dragon
In the basic implementations of grep, not without putting a lot of shell script round it. In newer version of grep, there's a commandline parameter to display a set number of lines before and after each match. man grep for more info and to see if you have the right version.
Hmm. Ok. I will check it out.
On my particular system, we are running Solaris 9. Not sure if that would support the newer version.
Assuming that I do not have the newer version, any other suggestions?
Thanks.
TCG
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ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)
NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the
standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)
ZGREP(1)