Unix Tip: DISPLAY ENTIRE BLOCKS

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Unix Tip 2420 - August 17, 2005

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DISPLAY ENTIRE BLOCKS

To display entire blocks of text which contain a certain pattern, this one-liner can be used:

cat file | perl -e "$/=''; while (<>) {print if /pattern/)}"

Of course, this can be put in a perl-script pgrep:

#!/bin/perl
$/='';
while (<>)
{print if /pattern/)}

This tip generously supported by: hmthage@wanadoo.nl

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