How to search a text in file and retrieve required lines following it with UNIX command?


 
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Old 01-25-2018
Hi Scott your post was very useful. Also can you please advice whether by using UNIX command we can match a certain pattern and return the following lines which is user-defined. By User-defined, I mean the text file will be in a format so as to match a file pattern and return another part of the file by ignoring few lines.

In the above mentioned example, I want to find the text UNIX and just return below

Test 8
Test 9

It will be great if the result is copied to a new text file.

Thanks in advance Smilie
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Old 01-25-2018
Skip 2 lines after UNIX?
Code:
awk 'found_unix_line==1 && skip_line_count++ > 2 {print $0} ; /UNIX/ {found_unix_line=1}' input_file > new_text_file

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