Seeking a grep-like script

[Timothy Murphy]

Ahmed Kamal wrote:

>> I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given word,
>> and returns the _paragraphs_ in which it appears (rather than the lines),
>> where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines.

> Google says
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> # usage: pargrep
> 
> inFile="$1"
> searchString="$2"
> 
> awk '
> BEGIN {
> FS="\n"
> RS=""
> }
> /'"$searchString"'/ { print }
> ' ${inFile}

Thanks.
And apologies for sending this query to the wrong newsgroup ...

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