Suggestions.

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi Keith,

How about piping the output of your two-line grepper into another grep,
this time outputting only those lines that do not contain your search
string?

HTH
Chuck


On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Keith Watson wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I need a suggestion or two for a dilemma that I am facing. I have
> a file which I am using grep to return a line with a particular
> search string and the following line.
>
> grep -A 1 string filename
>
> Here's the dilemma. There are multiple instincenses of the string
> so I have multiple two line returns. This is good, but what I
> really want is the second line only. Problem is that the second
> line has no common string on which to search, hence the search on
> line one. Anyone got any suggestions?
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