On 08/30/2013 02:50 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is there an option for grep, or some similar program, > that will print out a whole paragraph - > defined as the section between two blank lines - > containing a given word or phrase? > > Such as the above 4 lines. > If not, can anyone suggest a simple script that will do this? agrep (Approximate Grep, http://www.tgries.de/agrep/) is useful for that kind of thing. agrep -d '\n\n' some-word [files...] agrep is in the Fedora repo (or at least it was as of f15, not sure about later). -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org