grep by paragraph

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Dave Mitchell wrote:
>
>>> 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?
>> 
>> The perl one-liner below demonstrates this. Setting the $/ (input record
>> separator) var to the empty string causes perl to read in "lines" a
>> paragraph at a time.
>
>>     $ perl -e'$/=""; while (<>) { print if /green/ }' /tmp/text
>
> Thanks for the solutions.
>
> I gather there is no method using grep or one of its variants?

sed could do it.
I don't have a recipe on me at the moment.

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