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Old 11-01-2014
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Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Try:
Code:
sed -n '/Field 3/{N;/1234567890/p;}' file*

This worked as well.

Thanks.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Yes but that is equivalent to (GNU) grep -C 1 and it will show 3 lines per match instead of two..

You're right. But since the search string appeared in both Field 3 and 4, I needed to pull both before and after lines. I could've used the command below to get just the two files i needed:

Code:
grep -B 1 1234567890 file

# 9  
Old 11-01-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by bbbngowc
[..]But since the search string appeared in both Field 3 and 4, I needed to pull both before and after lines. I could've used the command below to get just the two files i needed:

Code:
grep -B 1 1234567890 file

Only when 1234567890 occurs in field 4, not when it occurs in field 3
# 10  
Old 11-01-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Only when 1234567890 occurs in field 4, not when it occurs in field 3
Correct.
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