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Rewriting grep to capture matching record then to print the 5 lines
I am trying to rewrite the grep command to capture the record(line) that has a pattern match and then to print out the matching line plus the 5 lines above and below the matched line so one can view the match in context. My problem is capturing the matched record. Here is a sample of what I have...
