On Jul 15, 3:00 pm, William Pursell <bill.purs...@gmail.com> wrote: > You might consider the -C (or -B or -A) options to grep. Yes, I've played with these, too. The problem in large text files with wrapped paragraphs, each "line" can be quite long, so even -C1 gives a big block before and after. But it's better than nothing. Thank you, rd