Re: [CentOS] grep

On 8/28/07, Scott McClanahan scott.mcclanahan@trnswrks.com 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.

'grep -A 5 bar foo' should do the trick. From the grep manpage -> -A NUM, --after-context=NUM Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines. Places a line containing -- between contiguous groups of matches.