Re: [bug #22100] Enhancement request: "grep foo | grep bar" in one process (i.e. line-selector and pattern selector)

[Richard Neill]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Richard Neill <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Thanks for your email. Sadly, my contrived example is oversimplified, such
> > that the sub-section is in the nth field, where n is known in advance -
> > but that isn't necessarily true.
>
> Not a problem, awk can handle that quite well.

That sounds like a good reason for me to learn awk properly.  :-)

But seriously, I still think this would be worth adding to grep if 
possible. My thoughts:
  - awk is relatively arcane, whereas lots of people know grep.
  - grep does almost everything needed, so why have yet another tool
  - awk isn't always available.

Also, it is related to bug 15280  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15280

Best wishes,

Richard