Try the following, inserting your matching string as appropriate: grep -A 1 string filename | grep -v string HTH and have a _great_ day. On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 12:35:58PM -0400, 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 -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. COSECANT (x) = COTAN (x) / TAN (x)
