Re: [PLUG] Scripting question

Awesome, thanks! I appreciate all of your help. I have a rather unique problem that I actually have to use powershell for my project and I am making great progress by simply googling how to write the equivalent commands in powershell. Today I learned that select-string -pattern can be followed by the exact same syntax as egrep and it's function is identical. It is truly painful to be forced to use windows but I am adapting. Believe it or not this helps me.

Thanks so much for your help.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 6:16 PM James Fiore <james.fiore@gmail.com> wrote:

In case you're interested for the future, the "-B n" option gives you n lines of context before the matched line and "-C n" gives you n lines both before and after the matched line.

Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 5:53 PM Michael Lazin via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
Thanks! That makes sense. I tested it out and it worked great.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 5:48 PM Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com> wrote:
Add the "-An" argument. Where the "n" is the number of lines that you want to see after the match.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 5:45 PM Michael Lazin via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
I like to think I am good at bash scripting but I am a little bit stumped. I am used to using commands like grep and egrep, but I want to match a pattern in text and then output not just the line that has the pattern but also a few subsequent lines. Can someone please give me a suggestion? Thanks again for your help

Michael Lazin
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