06-15-2011
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Originally Posted by
Corona688
Make up the scenario? Is this an actual problem or are you just quizzing us?
We often get questions about getting grep to cross multiple lines, but grep doesn't. But a 1-liner in awk might be able to do it.
We can't help you until we know how your data's organized because the logic depends on that. It's not psychic and neither are we.
Yeah....I am a wanna be teacher and fulfill my fantasies by quizzing people on the internet. Go get a life....you are being difficult.
Maybe you answered my question....but you sound generally uninformed because you are being difficult: grep will not provide the nth match only.
can anyone else confirm?
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ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)
NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the
standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)
ZGREP(1)