August 17, 2023

Show lines below and/or above a match with grep

$ grep pattern file.s -A n

will list n lines of trailing context after each match.

$ grep pattern file.s -B n

will list n lines of leading context before each match.

$ grep pattern file.s -C n

will list n lines of leading and trailing context surrounding each match.

Source: $ man grep.

grep is copyleft-licensed and is maintained by Jim Meyering1. It was first released in 1973.

See also:


  1. GNU Grep official website.↩︎


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