On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:05 -0400, 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. I know I'm late on this and there have been many fine replies. I prefer csplit for tasks like this. As always with *IX, many ways to skin the cat. > <snip> -- Bill