grep replacement

[Russ Nelson]

In article <23133 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs at bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>In article <7944 at alice.UUCP> andrew at alice.UUCP writes:
>>	the right thing to do is to write a context program that takes
>>input looking like "filename:linenumber:goo" and prints whatever context ...
>
>Almost, unless the original input was produced by a pipeline, in which
>case this (putative) post-processor can't help unless you tee the mess
>to a temp file, yup, mess is the right word.

How about:

alias with_context tee >/tmp/$$ | $* | context -f/tmp/$$

or something like that?  Does that offend tool-users sensibilities?
*Do* Neanderthals have any sensibilities?
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