Joseph L. Casale wrote: > if the text indented beneath it has "D:", then do the same and extract > "SNAPSHOT ID" if and only if "E:" follows?
If the line counts are constant you could do the reverse: grep -B 3 "\(E:\|D:\)" input.txt | grep Shadow Which would show the 3 lines above a line that has E:\ or D:\ and then only display the lines with the word Shadow. nate _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
