On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:03:24PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Dave Mitchell wrote:
>
> >> 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?
> >
> > The perl one-liner below demonstrates this. Setting the $/ (input record
> > separator) var to the empty string causes perl to read in "lines" a
> > paragraph at a time.
>
> > $ perl -e'$/=""; while (<>) { print if /green/ }' /tmp/text
>
> Thanks for the solutions.
>
> I gather there is no method using grep or one of its variants?
I don't know about paragraphs, but you do have the -A, -B, and -C options to get
context.
grep -C 3 string file
This will give you three lines before and after lines containing string.
Mike
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