On 08/30/2013 02:50 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Is there an option for grep, or some similar program,
that will print out a whole paragraph -
defined as the section between two blank lines -
containing a given word or phrase?
Such as the above 4 lines.
If not, can anyone suggest a simple script that will do this?
agrep (Approximate Grep,
http://www.tgries.de/agrep/) is useful
for that kind of thing.
agrep -d '\n\n' some-word [files...]
agrep is in the Fedora repo (or at least it was as of f15, not
sure about later).