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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers finding the nth match Post 302530962 by countryStyle on Wednesday 15th of June 2011 12:31:03 PM
Old 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

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)
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