On Thu, Feb 10 at 10:22, Victor Churchill wrote:
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> I believe 'grep -number' will give <number> lines of context around
> the match. Like 'grep -A 100 -B 100".
grep -number is not portable -A -B is. Unless you are putting it in a script
whatever works for you is fine.
Anyway rather than the tr above you might want to try out strings.
strings /dev/sda1 | grep -100 Vishal
Strings is a filter specifically designed to find printable strings in a file
so presumably designed to cope with lots of binary mush.
Let's hope your tempfiles weren't stored on ramdisk.
--
Bob Dunlop
