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.