Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given
word,
> and returns the _paragraphs_ in which it appears (rather than the lines),
> where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines.
Google says
#!/bin/sh
# usage: pargrep
inFile="$1"
searchString="$2"
awk '
BEGIN {
FS="\n"
RS=""
}
/'"$searchString"'/ { print }
' ${inFile}
Thanks.
And apologies for sending this query to the wrong newsgroup ...
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