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by jfroma 4097 days ago
This. I use:

tail -f /var/log/x.log | grep foo -A 20 -B 20

Most of the time.

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You know you can also do -C 40 for 40 lines of context instead of -A 20 -B 20
Note that -C is in each direction, not total; -C20 is equivalent to -A20 -B20.
Thank you,

This is the reason I always share how I do it in hn! LOL