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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting grep string and find line before Post 302151666 by summer_cherry on Sunday 16th of December 2007 11:02:08 PM
Old 12-17-2007
awk
Hi,

To be honest, i am not quiet sure about your req. I suppose it is as follow, please try it and find whether any help for you.

INPUT:
Code:
name_group1
a
a2
A
sdlfk
34
name_group2
b
b1
dfjkl
e4r
name_group3
dflk
line
this is a good idea

OUTPUT:
Code:
name_group1/name_group2/name_group3 according to your input string to be searched

CODE:
Code:
echo "Input string"
read str
nawk -v s="$str" 'BEGIN{
n=""
print s
}
{
if ($0 ~ /name/)
{
	n=$0
}
if (index($0,s)!=0)
{
	if (n!="")
		print n
	n==""
}
}' filename

 

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ftpgroups

ftpgroups(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						      ftpgroups(4)

NAME

       ftpgroups - group password file for use with the SITE GROUP and SITE GPASS commands.

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       The file is the group password file for use with the SITE GROUP and SITE GPASS commands.

       To enable the use of this file, the entry must be made in the configuration file

       This file contains an alphanumeric string, encrypted password, and the actual group name from the file.	Each entry is separated by After a
       user logs in, the SITE GROUP and SITE GPASS commands may be used to specify an enhanced access group and associated password.  If the group
       name and password are valid, the user becomes (via a member of the group specified in the group access file,

       The format of the group access file is:

       where  access_group_name  is  an  arbitrary  (alphanumeric  and/or  punctuation)  string.  encrypted_password is the password encrypted via
       crypt(3), exactly like in real_group_name is the name of a valid group listed in

       NOTE: For this option to work for anonymous FTP users, the ftp server must keep permanently open and the group access file is  loaded  into
       memory.	This means that:

	      (1)  the ftp server now has an additional file descriptor open, and

	      (2)  the	necessary  passwords  and access privileges granted to users via SITE GROUP will be static for the duration of an FTP ses-
		   sion.

       If you have an urgent need to change the access groups and/or passwords *NOW*, then kill all of the running FTP servers.

FILES

AUTHOR

       was developed by the Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

SEE ALSO

       ftpaccess(4).

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