On Thu, 27 May 2004 16:34:53 +1200
Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Grepping for things works best when you know in advance what they are 
> supposed to be :-) so you could try "$ dmesg | grep eth" but that would 
> only match the literal lines, and might miss the error emssages around 
> them. "$ dmesg | grep -A 3 -B 3 eth" will give three lines either side 
> of the matches ...

as will grep -C 3
A=after
B=before
C=context, ie A and B

-- 
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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