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Use Safari to find things more easily in text files
Authored by: S Barman on Tue, May 6 2008 at 8:09PM PDT

You can look at any text file from the command line using grep --context=2 'regular expression' name_of_file. That will get the job done!

Use Safari to find things more easily in text files
Authored by: Mark Wilden on Thu, May 8 2008 at 6:26AM PDT

grep --color highlights the hits.

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