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

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

Hey, that's pretty simple.

It almost does the right thing, probably useful for many of the
contexts where I want to do this.

It's not as useful if I don't know in which line of the three to
expect hits.  But often, as in the procmail example, I know in which
line I'm expecting hits.

Thanks.

(The general question is still open, out of curiosity, but I think
Tim handled over 90% of my need.)

-Jeff



On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:14:09PM -0500, Tim Cwik wrote:
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> 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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