On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Scott McClanahan 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. for the line matching "bar" and the next five lines after it: $ grep -A 5 bar foo if you don't want the line matching "bar": $ grep -A 5 bar foo | tail -5 -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v