Found bug in 'grep' manpage and infopage

[Karl-Heinz Zimmer]

The following was found using: grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2

Hi,

using the great GNU grep tool and preparing some general documentation to
be published to help Linux users use their onboard information sources
I just found a little bug in both the 'grep' manpage and the 'grep' info:

       -C [NUM], -NUM, --context[=NUM]
              Print NUM lines (default 2) of output context.

This is wrong.

While me calling "grep -A 3 sometext somefile" works fine
     and calling "grep -A3  sometext somefile" works fine
     and calling "grep -B 3 sometext somefile" works fine
     and calling "grep -B3  sometext somefile" works fine
the following
does *not* work: "grep -C 3 sometext somefile" works fine
but this WORKS:  "grep -C3  sometext somefile" works fine

So the manpage and info text should say:

       -C[NUM], -NUM, --context[=NUM]
              Print NUM lines (default 2) of output context.

Removing the space between "-C" and "[NUM]" removes the bug.  :-)

Karl-Heinz
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