[CentOS] Grep: show me this line and the next N lines?

[Thomas Harold]

On 5/31/2011 3:43 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
 > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:26, John R. Dennison<jrd at gerdesas.com>  wrote:
 >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:10:40AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
 >>> Thanks, all. I did actually look at the grep manpage but after a few
 >>> screenfuls it became tl;dr and I started just skimming. I suppose that
 >>> I skimmed too fast!
 >>
 >> Um....
 >>
 >> It's the first option described.
 >>
 >
 > I see now that the server's grep manpage (CentOS) does in fact put it
 > right there at the top. I usually pull up manpages on localhost, not
 > what I'm SSHing into, and on this Debian-Derived distro it is buried
 > halfway down the third page of nine. That is interesting, and I'm sure
 > that there is a lesson to be learned from that!
 >

One help might be to use the slash key to search the man page.

/lines[enter]

Then use 'n' or 'N' to search forward/backward.