> I want to search a text file for a few (alphabetic) words which > must be "near" each other, but not necessarily on the same line.
grep is pretty much "line oriented" and although it's possible to script elaborate workarounds involving transfers back and forth between the "pattern" space and the "hold" space it's icky and slow to work against the grain that way. I predict that you'll end up using something like Python or Perl. I thought agrep ( the "approximate grep" that's part of Glimpse) might do the trick as it's willing to let you specify very sloppy search terms but, alas, it too is line oriented. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
