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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users find and copy string in a file Post 47955 by vascobrito on Monday 23rd of February 2004 11:05:49 AM
Old 02-23-2004
find and copy string in a file

Hello there
I need to find a string in an file, and then copy to a new file from the previous 6 lines to 41 lines after the string.
So, what i need to do , and just don't know how, is to find the string and copy 48 lines where the string would be in the 7th line.
I don't know if i can do it with "sed", but i've readed the man in my hp-ux, and all the threads i could find about manipulating files, and got a lot confused.
Thanks for any help.
 

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UNIQ(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   UNIQ(1)

NAME
uniq - report repeated lines in a file SYNOPSIS
uniq [ -udc [ +n ] [ -n ] ] [ input [ output ] ] DESCRIPTION
Uniq reads the input file comparing adjacent lines. In the normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated lines are removed; the remainder is written on the output file. Note that repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be found; see sort(1). If the -u flag is used, just the lines that are not repeated in the original file are output. The -d option specifies that one copy of just the repeated lines is to be written. The normal mode output is the union of the -u and -d mode outputs. The -c option supersedes -u and -d and generates an output report in default style but with each line preceded by a count of the number of times it occurred. The n arguments specify skipping an initial portion of each line in the comparison: -n The first n fields together with any blanks before each are ignored. A field is defined as a string of non-space, non-tab charac- ters separated by tabs and spaces from its neighbors. +n The first n characters are ignored. Fields are skipped before characters. SEE ALSO
sort(1), comm(1) UNIQ(1)
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