Feature request: see N context lines around matches

I recently missed a couple of times the -A/B/C argument of grep (but then for “bh”): finding lines around my target command (when I don’t remember some new command but I do remember ssh was called before).

A: n lines before match B: n lines after match C: n lines before and after match

Example: grep -r -C 5 “test” .

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./new.py-
./new.py-from sqlalchemy import create_engine, MetaData, Table, Column
./new.py-from sqlalchemy import Integer, Unicode, UnicodeText
./new.py-from sqlalchemy import ForeignKey
./new.py-
./new.py:engine = create_engine("postgresql://postgres@localhost/test")
./new.py-
./new.py-metadata = MetaData()
./new.py-
./new.py-countries_table = Table("countries", metadata,
./new.py-                        Column("id", Integer, primary_key=True),

Notice the line with “test” and 5 lines before and after. It uses – two times to delimit multiple matches. I’m indeed missing colors on the “test” match, I had to specifically add --color=always|auto flag. It would be nice to be the default to use colors I guess.

[kootenpv]

Wow, this has been a long time. I still find myself wanting this very much: just a little peek around a selected command. The better implementation would probably to use it as an extra option in interactive? After you’ve selected a command, enter a second selection of the commands around this. It’s very crucial, as sometimes you want to know for example to which directory you’ve moved or something before executing a command, or know what other steps you took.

Thanks my friend, still an active user of bashhub every day 😃

[kootenpv]

@DanEdens and @rcaloras thanks a lot, it’s great to know next time I can easily then filter on timestamp/session!