retrieved multiple lines on multiple places in a file - Shell Programming and Scripting

otheus · #4 (**permalink**) 02-14-2008

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Originally Posted by dala

Thx otheus, to answer your question, I am using `grep "^first"`, when I found it I would continue and grep for the "^second" word and so on.

Okay, so you can use "egrep" for a more interesting regular expression:

Code:

egrep "^(first|second|third) " infile.txt

if that doesn't work, just use awk with almost identical syntax:

Code:

awk "/^(first|second|third) /" infile.txt