Re: [PLUG] grep with more structure and multi-line

[Tim Cwik <tcwik@stnhbr.com>]

What about grep -A -B -C? Would that help?


On 2003.12.15 17:04, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> 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
>
>  Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
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