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Old 01-02-2009
Rhije Rhije is offline
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I have no idea what HP-UX 11.11 is.. but normal *nix shell, you can do:

grep -A2 "sometext" somefile.ext

It would grab that text, and the two lines afterwards.. You can also use -B for before.