The current version of AIX i have does not have the grep -A or -B I was told there are grep sharewares out there that has this fuctionality. I am using the grep -E Error|Message filename But I need to be able to capture at least 2 lines before and after. Can anyone help me please?. Thank you.

Sorry i meant Grep -A or -B

This: grep -A -B is generally associated with the GNU version of grep, i.e. Linux. You should be able to obtain it at http://www.gnu.org Here's an earlier thread that discussed using this version of grep: http://www.computing.net/unix/wwwboard/forum/7114.html

Here is an awk script that I call cgrep (context grep).  It was originally posted by aigles, and I converted it as noted in the script comments. Thanks to aigles for posting the original script (I think in Feb 2004). If context areas overlap, lines will not be duplicated. # !/usr/bin/ksh # Script: cgrep # Author: aigles (Jean-Pierre) from COMPUTING.NET # # This script was originally posted by aigles as an #!/usr/bin/awk script. # I converted to #!/usr/bin/ksh to allow parameters to be entered in the # form of -B3 instead of -v before=3. # # Usage: # cgrep [ -Bn ] [ -An ] [ -Cn ] pattern file1 file2 ... #   -Bn       : n lines to display before target line #   -An       : n lines to display after target line #   -Cn       : n lines to display before/after target line #   pattern   : regular expression #   file1 ... : input file(s) # # Example: # cgrep -C3 'ERROR' input_file B=0 A=0 C=0 while true do if [[ $1 = -B* ]] ; then    B=${1#-B}    shift    continue fi if [[ $1 = -A* ]] ; then    A=${1#-A}    shift    continue fi if [[ $1 = -C* ]] ; then    C=${1#-C}    shift    continue fi break done awk -v before=$B -v after=$A -v context=$C '\ function PrintBeforeContext ( lindex, lfrom, lto) {    lfrom = before_index - before    if (lfrom < 0) lfrom = 0    lto = before_index - 1    for ( lindex = lfrom ; lindex <= lto ; lindex++ )       print before_context[lindex % before]    before_index = 0 } BEGIN {    context = context + 0    before = before + 0    after = after + 0    if (context > 0)      {before = context       after = context}    before_index = 0    before_context[0] = ""    after_index = 0    pattern = ARGV[1]    ARGV[1] = ""    if (ARGC <= 2) ARGV[ARGC++] = "-" } $0 ~ pattern {    PrintBeforeContext()    print $0    after_index = after    next } after_index > 0 {    print $0    after_index--    next } before > 0 {    before_context[before_index % before] = $0    before_index++ }' $* exit 0