Other way to approach this is to delete lines between MD5 & Network activity, excluding those lines.
This should do that trick. perl -e '$_=`cat ipfile`;s/(^MD5.+?$).+?(^Network\s*Activity.*?$)/\1 \2/msi;print' now you can do a grep. Cheers, Uday. On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan < bala150...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have many text file like so > > *Input* > $cat 1/reports/report.txt > > MD5 askldfansd23423mnavl;noja > > sdlkfasdf > as;ldkjfasd > ;laskdflasdf > alsdfj;alsdf > asdlkas;lgasdg > > Network Activity > > DNS: > > HTTP: > > Other Activity > > > Now I need the output like shown below. > *Output* > MD5 askldfansd23423mnavl;noja > Network Activity > DNS: > HTTP: > > I can get the first line by the command > $*grep "MD5 " */reports/report.txt* > If I want the next Network Activity > $*grep "Network Activity" -A5 */reports/report.txt* > > However how can I get to do both of these in the same line so that their > outputs are interleaved ? > > <http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc> > -- Cheers Uday. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
