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On 2024-12-30 03:37, KMRH via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
> Allow the command 'grep -A' (without specifying a number) to default to showing all lines after a match

We couldn't do that as-is, as 'grep -A 1' is equivalent to 'grep -A1' 
and people rely on that.

'grep -A 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999' does what you want 
already, even if 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999 is too big to 
fit into a machine word. Is that good enough? It would save your having 
to wait for the next grep release....

Alternatively, I suppose we could add syntax like 'grep -A Inf' to do 
what's requested, where "Inf" is short for infinity.

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Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN> wrote:

> Alternatively, I suppose we could add syntax like 'grep -A Inf' to do 
> what's requested, where "Inf" is short for infinity.

And just wait, as soon as you do that, someone will want

	grep -A NaN

:-) :-) :-)

Arnold

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Or, for us old farts who have been using 'sed' for a half century, if I wanted to print the lines in a file starting with the line matching a certain pattern, through the remaining lines of the file, I'd use:

  sed -n '/pattern/,$/p' < file

Then I wouldn't have to worry whether or not the 'grep' command I was using would lose it's lunch trying to parse '9999999999999999999999', though, granted, every executable 'grep' binary I happen to have on my disk, a couple dozen of them going back over 20 years, all handle the forty-nine 9's I just tested, HOWEVER the busybox 0.51 grep source code circa 2001 I have at hand will fail if strtoul of  the numeric argument to "-A" overflows, returning ULONG_MAX with errno of ERANGE, and likely some older variants of grep would also fail, _and_

I wouldn't have to worry that my 'magic' number wasn't big enough for every ordinary, already written to disk, file that I might be reading, _and_

I could run this off a pipe that never ended with a normal closure of the input stream that would have sent an EOF to input stream of 'sed', but only ended with a signal or hardware stoppage, without worrying that I had not put enough nine's (9) in my number, _and_

I wouldn't have readers of that code wondering what that strange number was ... though, granted, I would have them doing 'man sed' ... about time in my book.

But, yes, as Paul Eggert notes, command line parsing of 'grep -A 123'  would be ambiguous.  Is "123"  a filename, or a parameter to the "-A" argument?

-- 
Paul Jackson
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