Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am personally not thrilled by what this series attempts to do, but first > a few questions: > > - Are there existing non-git "grep" implementations that do this? > > - If yes: > - what command option letter do they use to specify line number? > - do they not support a range notation (e.g. -@ 25-30,32-40)? > - what do they do when given more than one file? I'm not sure if it is exactly the same as '-@' in Bert proposal, but "ack", grep-like text finder in Perl (http://betterthangrep.com or http://p3rl.org/ack), includes the following command line option: --line=NUM Only print line NUM of each file. Multiple lines can be given with multiple --line options or as a comma separated list (--line=3,5,7). --line=4-7 also works. The lines are always output in ascending order, no matter the order given on the command line. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html