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Old 03-07-2003, 01:10 AM   #1
born4linux
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grepping for multi-line output


i can't get any reference about this online nor with the man page, so I need some tips here.

my situation;

- i have a file which contains plain text records with each record consisting of 1 to 4 lines. how do i grep (or whatever tool) the record number and print all the lines related to that record? each record is separated by lines made up of dashes. ie:

------------------------------------------------------------
yyyymmdd blahsdfdf dkfdkflasjfljdflj recordnum
blah blah blah
blah blah blah yada yada
------------------------------------------------------------

i might be using the wrong tool (grep and awk) or what?

thanks.
 
Old 03-07-2003, 02:26 AM   #2
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Use awk.

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