Package: grep
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainers,
I would like to request a feature enhancement for the grep tool.
Feature Request
Allow the command 'grep -A' (without specifying a number) to default to showing
all lines after a match, instead of erroring out. This would be conceptually
equiv
Paul Eggert wrote:
> Alternatively, I suppose we could add syntax like 'grep -A Inf' to do
> what's requested, where "Inf" is short for infinity.
And just wait, as soon as you do that, someone will want
grep -A NaN
:-) :-) :-)
Arnold
On 2024-12-30 03:37, KMRH via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
Allow the command 'grep -A' (without specifying a number) to default to showing
all lines after a match
We couldn't do that as-is, as 'grep -A 1' is equivalent to 'grep -A1'
and people rely on that.
'grep -A 9
Or, for us old farts who have been using 'sed' for a half century, if I wanted
to print the lines in a file starting with the line matching a certain pattern,
through the remaining lines of the file, I'd use:
sed -n '/pattern/,$/p' < file
Then I wouldn't have to worry whether or not the 'grep
