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Old 01-30-2011
Easy way to pull a paragraph from a text file?
I have a collection of text files that comprise a mailing list archive. I grep them to find an email that interests me, then open the file in a text editor to find the surrounding paragraph of text. Is there an easy way to do this from the shell instead?
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Old 01-30-2011
If you want context around the line use the -A, -B, or -C options. For instance:

Code:
grep "string" /path_to_directory/ -C50

This will give you 50 lines of context around the line matched. Also, I like to use the --color=always option which gives me the lined matched in color red for easy identification.
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Old 01-30-2011
Excellent, thanks!
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