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Old 01-30-2007
return line below string grepp'ed for
Hi there

Does anybody know how to get grep to return the line underneath the string i am grepping for ie, if i have this file



Code:
hello 
everybody
how
are
you

and i issue #cat file | grep how

I would like it to return the line below (in this case the string "are")

Is this possible at all

cheers
Gary
# 2  
Old 01-30-2007
SED solution
Code:
sed -n "N;/how\n/s/.*\n//p" file

# 3  
Old 01-30-2007
An awk solution:

Code:
awk '/how/{getline;print}' infile

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