grep by paragraph
smcg4191 at frii.com
smcg4191 at frii.com
Fri Aug 30 14:18:41 UTC 2013
On 08/30/2013 02:50 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is there an option for grep, or some similar program,
> that will print out a whole paragraph -
> defined as the section between two blank lines -
> containing a given word or phrase?
>
> Such as the above 4 lines.
> If not, can anyone suggest a simple script that will do this?
agrep (Approximate Grep, http://www.tgries.de/agrep/) is useful
for that kind of thing.
agrep -d '\n\n' some-word [files...]
agrep is in the Fedora repo (or at least it was as of f15, not
sure about later).
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