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bug #24290: option to output all lines

Submitter:  Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman>
Submitted:  Thu 18 Sep 2008 07:12:51 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  None Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open

Thu 18 Sep 2008 07:12:51 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

Grep has nice options to match regular expressions/patterns and highlight them so that the user can easily see them.

I find a need to have grep output all lines, and just hightlight the matches as they go by. This is as oppose to it only outputting lines that contain a match.

This might seem counter intuitive, but I don't think grep by definition is for filtering lines; instead, it is for finding patterns in files/streams. So, simply highlighting the matches is a valid thing for grep to do.

Note that grep already has options to output lines containing matches and lines not containing matches, and even an option to output lines surrounding a line containing a match. That latter one can be used as a workaround, if a large enough number is given for --context.

Please consider adding such an option.

Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2009-12-04 bonzini Severity3 - Normal 1 - Wish
    2008-09-18 davidmaxwaterman Carbon-Copy- Added davidmaxwaterman

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