help with grep in script
I have a text file below where I only want to extract the line NAME and then the first two occurences of "file was .." afterwards but i can't get beyond what i've tried here - any ideas?
cat test | egrep '(^NAME |file)'
textfile
NAME test
FILE: 2.0
SUBVERSION 1.0
HEADER: 1.3
file was ( here )
file was ( there )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( here )
file was ( there )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
junk is
here to stay
and on
and on
NAME test2
FILE 1.0
SUBVERSION 1.0
HEADER: 1.4
file was ( here )
file was ( there )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
junk is
here to stay
and on
and on
NAME test67
FILE 3.0
SUBVERSION 1.0
HEADER: 1.4
file was ( here )
file was ( there )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
cat test | egrep '(^NAME |file)'
textfile
NAME test
FILE: 2.0
SUBVERSION 1.0
HEADER: 1.3
file was ( here )
file was ( there )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( here )
file was ( there )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
junk is
here to stay
and on
and on
NAME test2
FILE 1.0
SUBVERSION 1.0
HEADER: 1.4
file was ( here )
file was ( there )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
junk is
here to stay
and on
and on
NAME test67
FILE 3.0
SUBVERSION 1.0
HEADER: 1.4
file was ( here )
file was ( there )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
file was ( everywhere )
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Gerwin Jansen
I'm thinking of an awk or sed script don't think you can do this with just grep. Can you use awk / sed here?
ASKER
Perfect and thank you for the very fast response
@farzanj - nice :) - I just get an error on the last grep and have to change to:
egrep '^NAME|file was' test | grep -A2 'NAME' | grep -v '^-'
egrep '^NAME|file was' test | grep -A2 'NAME' | grep -v '^-'
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