I'm a UNIX novice and am currently using a grep stmt to search for a pattern and send the matching lines to a new file. But what I really want to do is to append the line after the matching line to the matching line in the new file.

Any ideas?

3/17/04 I am using the Bourne shell.

And the sed line from Ygor works nicely to capture the line after the pattern line, but I still need to incorporate something that will also capture the pattern line itself.

what shell are you using

Normally I would do

grep "pattern" infiles >> destfiles

This quote is from:Handy One-Liners for SED

It's not hard edit the sed script.

Original: sed -n '/regexp/{n;p;}'
Becomes: sed -n '/regexp/{p;n;p;}'

Where: n = next line ; p = print

As an alternative to sed, you could use awk which is easier to understand:

awk '/regexp/{print;getline;print}'