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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find string, then get the next 3 lines in a file Post 302144188 by sunsri01 on Tuesday 6th of November 2007 03:42:06 PM
Old 11-06-2007
Bug find string, then get the next 3 lines in a file

Please Try following

#!/bin/sh

val=`grep -n "string" filename |awk -F":" '{print $1}'
tail +`expr $val + 1` filename |head -3


Thanks
Sridhar SSmilie
 

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