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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed to conditionally delete multiple lines Post 302532930 by Corona688 on Wednesday 22nd of June 2011 12:05:49 PM
Old 06-22-2011
Code:
$ cat <<EOF | awk '/WARNING/ { W=2; } {} ((W--)<=0)'

WARNING
WARNING
DANGER WILL ROBINSON
DANGER DANGER
WARNING
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
EOF

DANGER DANGER
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
$

Every line that matches WARNING sets W=2. Every line, whether it matches or not, decrements W. So a matching line in effect sets it to 1. The statement at the end of the {} prevents printing when W > 0, which avoids one or more warning lines in a row plus one line after. You could change W=2 to W=3 if you wanted to skip two lines after.
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gvfs-cat(1)							   User Commands						       gvfs-cat(1)

NAME
gvfs-cat - print a file to standard output using the VFS system SYNOPSIS
gvfs-cat URI DESCRIPTION
gvfs-cat prints a file to standard output using the virtual file system to access the file via a URI. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: URI Specifies the file location in standard URI format. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cat a File From a Web Server example% gvfs-cat http://www.sun.com Example 2: Cat a Local File example% gvfs-cat file:///home/user/README.txt ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gvfs-cat Executable to print a file to standard output using the VFS system ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-gvfs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1) gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1), gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-move(1), gvfs-rename(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5) NOTES
Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008. SunOS 5.11 25 Mar 2008 gvfs-cat(1)
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