I had tried your command with a little tweak

Code:

awk '/^0[67][MV].*003529/'

and the output I got was what it was supposed to give. However, it isn't exactly suitable for me as I am looking for only those lines which have 003529 in the 26-31 position.

Also there is either a 06M or 06V or 07M or 07V in the line that I need to search. When the regex matches, it should print the next 5 lines, including $0, in total 6 lines.

Hope I am clear now.

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Hi RudiC,

Can you please explain to me what does the part in RED mean?

Also is there a way where we can specify that 003529 comes between position 26,31. Reason Im asking is if there is a need for me to specify characters which are say between the position 100-106 then it kind of becomes difficult for me to mention the dots.

Code:

grep -A5 "^0[67][MV].\{22\}003529" file

is really fast compared to awk