[CentOS] grep

[Scott McClanahan]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:27 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:13:00AM -0400, Scott McClanahan wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Like this?
> 
>   $ cat xx            
>   line 1
>   line 2
>   line bar
>   line after 1
>   line after 2
>   line after 3
>   line after 4
>   line after 5
>   line after 6
>   line after 7
>   $ sed '/bar/,+5d' xx
>   line 1
>   line 2
>   line after 6
>   line after 7
> 
Beautiful man! Hats off. I've never used sed like that but I'll surely
remember that one.  Thanks from everybody.