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getting a specific line from a file

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Name: manjushree123
Date: February 21, 2007 at 22:31:02 Pacific
OS: HP-UNIX
CPU/Ram: P4 and 1GB
Product: HP
Comment:

i hv written a shell script which exports data to a file and i want to filter out one particular line from that file and manipulate that line further.




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Name: thepubba1
Date: February 23, 2007 at 09:37:56 Pacific
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I would think grep is the option of choice here.


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Name: aka
Date: February 26, 2007 at 07:07:40 Pacific
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$ grep -A# -B# searchterm filename

Maybe this helps, if not, I would need more information about what exactly do you want to do.


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