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Old 05-28-2005
searching text question
If I am searching through a text file, and it is setup in hierarchical fashion.
ie:

Memory:

256 MB
DDR
Kingston

CPU:

UltraSparc
800 Mhz

can i somehow search for CPU and pull out lines below it as well?
Like grep only pulls that one line, i want that line and 5-10 lines below as well.
And ideas?

Thanks!
Brian
Smilie
# 2  
Old 05-28-2005
Code:
 a=`grep -n "CPU" file1 |cut -d":" -f 1`
 ((b=a+5))
  sed -n "$a,$b p" file1

# 3  
Old 05-28-2005
nawk -v search='CPU:' -f bg.awk bgFile

here's bg.awk:
Code:
BEGIN {
  RS=FS=""
}
$1 == search { getline; print ; next}

# 4  
Old 05-28-2005
Code:
#!/usr/bin/sh
for line in 'CPU:' 'Memory:'
do
lineno=`grep -n $line test.tmp|awk -F":" '{print $1}'`
lineno1=`expr $lineno + 5`
sed -n "${lineno},${lineno1}p" test.tmp
done

# 5  
Old 05-29-2005
thanks~
Thanks guys for your help, i appreciate it very much!

Brian
 
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