the box locks up !

[Taavi Burns]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:29:00PM -0500, Byron Sonne wrote:
> If anyone has a quickie to grep for certain errors *and* display, let's 
> say, the 25 lines before and after the errors it greps out, that would 
> be handy.

It's called a man page.  "man grep" returns this nugget:
    -C NUM, --context=NUM
        Print  NUM lines of output context.  Places a line containing --
        between contiguous groups of matches.

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