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This really is a dummy question but I'm stuck and out of time... I have a large file and out of it I only want to pick out lines starting with either "Pressure" or "N". I still need these lines to be in their original order.

example of text

Code:

Pressure 3 
N 2
N 3
bla bla
bla bla
Pressure 4
bla bla
N 5

I would like

Code:

Pressure 3
N 2
N3 
Pressure 4
N 5

I can use awk (see below) but can only get the coding correct to pick out one line at a time.

Code:

awk '/Pressure/, /[Pa]/' all > check.txt
awk '/  N  /' all  > check.txt

I need awk to scan a line at a time so that the Pressure lines and N lines are still printed in the correct order.

Any help appreciated,

Jenny

Code:

sed -n '/^Pressure/p;/^N/p' file

Code:

awk '/^Pressure/ || /^N/' infile

You don't even need awk, grep would do it too:

Code:

grep -E "^Pressure|^N" infile

Fantastic -thanks!