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Old 07-24-2008
Grep or other ways to output line above and/or below searched line

Hi all,

Would like to know how I could search for a string 'xyz' but have the output show the line plus the line above and/or below all lines found.

eg. search for xyz from file containing:

abc
12345
asdf xyz asdfds
wwwww
kjkjkj
ppppp
kkkxyz
eeee
zzzzz

and the output to show:

12345
asdf xyz asdfds
wwwww
ppppp
kkkxyz
eeee

option to only show line above or below or x number of lines above or below.

preference to use script rather than something like perl...

thanks...Smilie
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Old 07-24-2008
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Old 07-24-2008
Cool !! SmilieSmilie
sorry couldn't find it earlier.
cheers
 
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