[CentOS] grep

Stephen Harris lists at spuddy.org
Tue Aug 28 14:08:48 UTC 2007


> 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".

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rgds
Stephen



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