On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:08 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
> > Not a CentOS specific question, although I am running grep on CentOS 4.3
> > but how would you grep out a series of lines in a file starting at a
> > specific point. For instance, if I have a file named foo and I want to
> > grep out the next 5 lines after the first and only instance of the
> > string "bar" how could I pull that off? Thanks so much.
>
> What do you mean by "grep out" ? Do you want to display those lines,
> or skip those lines? Do you want to see the "bar" line? Is that included
> in the 5 lines?
>
> Anyway, you probably want to use "sed" here, rather than "grep".
>
I'd like to skip those lines. I'd like to skip the line with "bar" and
the following five lines.
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