On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, 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?
sed could do it.
I don't have a recipe on me at the moment.
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