Hi Keith, How about piping the output of your two-line grepper into another grep, this time outputting only those lines that do not contain your search string? HTH Chuck On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Keith Watson wrote: > Folks, > > I need a suggestion or two for a dilemma that I am facing. I have > a file which I am using grep to return a line with a particular > search string and the following line. > > grep -A 1 string filename > > Here's the dilemma. There are multiple instincenses of the string > so I have multiple two line returns. This is good, but what I > really want is the second line only. Problem is that the second > line has no common string on which to search, hence the search on > line one. Anyone got any suggestions? > -- > Keith Watson > kwatson at smed.yi.org > > Among the major impediments to discovery are not the ignorant > but those with illusions of knowledge. - B. Alan Wallace > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (52% of Full) My home page is at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
