Seeking a grep-like script

[Dave Mitchell]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:36:07PM +0100, Timothy Murphy 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.

perl -ne 'BEGIN { $/="" } print if /someword/' file1 file2 ... 

(setting $/ to the empty string makes perl read in whole paragraphs at a
time)

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