[PLUG] grep with more structure and multi-line

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

It happens often enough that I want to grep/awk/whatever files that
have multiline structure.  Today's example is a procmail log file.
Each record is three lines.  Here's an example record:

From plug-announce-admin@lists.phillylinux.org Mon Dec 15 15:31:11 2003
 Subject: plug-announce post from c5dfjjsqoq@lycos.it requires approval
  Folder: /usr/bin/lbdb-fetchaddr					   3079

If I am searching for things from plug-announce-admin, then I would
want to see the entire three line record presented for each hit.

Of course, it's not too hard to write a little perl script to do this.
But it's not a one-liner, and so it's not as ad hoc as grep, awk, and
so forth on the command line.

Has anyone out there solved this problem so that such things can be
searched in a very ad hoc way?

-- 
 Jeff

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