Question: I'd like to print a single line directly following a line that contains a matching pattern.
My version of sed will not take the following syntax (it bombs out on +1p) which would seem like a simple solution:
sed -n '/ABC/,+1p' infile
I assume awk would be better to do multiline processing, but I am not sure how to do it.
Never use the word "pattern" in this context as it is ambiguous. Always use "string" or "regexp" (or in shell "globbing pattern"), whichever it is you really mean. See How do I find the text that matches a pattern? for more about that.
The specific answer you want is:
awk 'f{print;f=0} /regexp/{f=1}' file
or specializing the more general solution of the Nth record after a regexp (idiom "c" below):
awk 'c&&!--c; /regexp/{c=1}' file
The following idioms describe how to select a range of records given a specific regexp to match:
a) Print all records from some regexp:
awk '/regexp/{f=1}f' file
b) Print all records after some regexp:
awk 'f;/regexp/{f=1}' file
c) Print the Nth record after some regexp:
awk 'c&&!--c;/regexp/{c=N}' file
d) Print every record except the Nth record after some regexp:
awk 'c&&!--c{next}/regexp/{c=N}1' file
e) Print the N records after some regexp:
awk 'c&&c--;/regexp/{c=N}' file
f) Print every record except the N records after some regexp:
awk 'c&&c--{next}/regexp/{c=N}1' file
g) Print the N records from some regexp:
awk '/regexp/{c=N}c&&c--' file
I changed the variable name from "f" for "found" to "c" for "count" where
appropriate as that's more expressive of what the variable actually IS.
f is short for found. Its a boolean flag that I'm setting to 1 (true) when I find a string matching the regular expression regexp in the input (/regexp/{f=1}). The other place you see f on its own in each script it's being tested as a condition and when true causes awk to execute its default action of printing the current record. So input records only get output after we see regexp and set f to 1/true.
c && c-- { foo } means "if c is non-zero then decrement it and if it's still non-zero then execute foo" so if c starts at 3 then it'll be decremented to 2 and then foo executed, and on the next input line c is now 2 so it'll be decremented to 1 and then foo executed again, and on the next input line c is now 1 so it'll be decremented to 0 but this time foo will not be executed because 0 is a false condition. We do c && c-- instead of just testing for c-- > 0 so we can't run into a case with a huge input file where c hits zero and continues getting decremented so often it wraps around and becomes positive again.
It's the line after that match that you're interesting in, right? In sed, that could be accomplished like so:
sed -n '/ABC/{n;p}' infile
Alternatively, grep's A option might be what you're looking for.
-A NUM, Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines.
For example, given the following input file:
foo
bar
baz
bash
bongo
You could use the following:
$ grep -A 1 "bar" file
bar
baz
$ sed -n '/bar/{n;p}' file
baz
I needed to print ALL lines after the pattern ( ok Ed, REGEX ), so I settled on this one:
sed -n '/pattern/,$p' # prints all lines after ( and including ) the pattern
But since I wanted to print all the lines AFTER ( and exclude the pattern )
sed -n '/pattern/,$p' | tail -n+2 # all lines after first occurrence of pattern
I suppose in your case you can add a head -1 at the end
sed -n '/pattern/,$p' | tail -n+2 | head -1 # prints line after pattern
And I really should include tlwhitec's comment in this answer (since their sed-strict approach is the more elegant than my suggestions):
sed '0,/pattern/d'
The above script deletes every line starting with the first and stopping with (and including) the line that matches the pattern. All lines after that are printed.
awk Version:
awk '/regexp/ { getline; print $0; }' filetosearch
If pattern match, copy next line into the pattern buffer, delete a return, then quit -- side effect is to print.
sed '/pattern/ { N; s/.*\n//; q }; d'
Actually sed -n '/pattern/{n;p}' filename will fail if the pattern match continuous lines:
$ seq 15 |sed -n '/1/{n;p}'
2
11
13
15
The expected answers should be:
2
11
12
13
14
15
My solution is:
$ sed -n -r 'x;/_/{x;p;x};x;/pattern/!s/.*//;/pattern/s/.*/_/;h' filename
For example:
$ seq 15 |sed -n -r 'x;/_/{x;p;x};x;/1/!s/.*//;/1/s/.*/_/;h'
2
11
12
13
14
15
Explains:
x;: at the beginning of each line from input, use x command to exchange the contents in pattern space & hold space.
/_/{x;p;x};: if pattern space, which is the hold space actually, contains _ (this is just a indicator indicating if last line matched the pattern or not), then use x to exchange the actual content of current line to pattern space, use p to print current line, and x to recover this operation.
x: recover the contents in pattern space and hold space.
/pattern/!s/.*//: if current line does NOT match pattern, which means we should NOT print the NEXT following line, then use s/.*// command to delete all contents in pattern space.
/pattern/s/.*/_/: if current line matches pattern, which means we should print the NEXT following line, then we need to set a indicator to tell sed to print NEXT line, so use s/.*/_/ to substitute all contents in pattern space to a _(the second command will use it to judge if last line matched the pattern or not).
h: overwrite the hold space with the contents in pattern space; then, the content in hold space is ^_$ which means current line matches the pattern, or ^$, which means current line does NOT match the pattern.
the fifth step and sixth step can NOT exchange, because after s/.*/_/, the pattern space can NOT match /pattern/, so the s/.*// MUST be executed!
This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed -n ':a;/regexp/{n;h;p;x;ba}' file
Use seds grep-like option -n and if the current line contains the required regexp replace the current line with the next, copy that line to the hold space (HS), print the line, swap the pattern space (PS) for the HS and repeat.
Piping some greps can do it (it runs in POSIX shell and under BusyBox):
cat my-file | grep -A1 my-regexp | grep -v -- '--' | grep -v my-regexp
-v will show non-matching lines
-- is printed by grep to separate each match, so we skip that too
If you just want the next line after a pattern, this sed command will work
sed -n -e '/pattern/{n;p;}'
-n supresses output (quiet mode);
-e denotes a sed command (not required in this case);
/pattern/ is a regex search for lines containing the literal combination of the characters pattern (Use /^pattern$/ for line consisting of only of “pattern”;
n replaces the pattern space with the next line;
p prints;
For example:
seq 10 | sed -n -e '/5/{n;p;}'
Note that the above command will print a single line after every line containing pattern. If you just want the first one use sed -n -e '/pattern/{n;p;q;}'. This is also more efficient as the whole file is not read.
This strictly sed command will print all lines after your pattern.
sed -n '/pattern/,${/pattern/!p;}
Formatted as a sed script this would be:
/pattern/,${
/pattern/!p
}
Here’s a short example:
seq 10 | sed -n '/5/,${/5/!p;}'
/pattern/,$ will select all the lines from pattern to the end of the file.
{} groups the next set of commands (c-like block command)
/pattern/!p; prints lines that doesn’t match pattern. Note that the ; is required in early versions, and some non-GNU, of sed. This turns the instruction into a exclusive range - sed ranges are normally inclusive for both start and end of the range.
To exclude the end of range you could do something like this:
sed -n '/pattern/,/endpattern/{/pattern/!{/endpattern/d;p;}}
/pattern/,/endpattern/{
/pattern/!{
/endpattern/d
p
}
}
/endpattern/d is deleted from the “pattern space” and the script restarts from the top, skipping the p command for that line.
Another pithy example:
seq 10 | sed -n '/5/,/8/{/5/!{/8/d;p}}'
If you have GNU sed you can add the debug switch:
seq 5 | sed -n --debug '/2/,/4/{/2/!{/4/d;p}}'
Output:
SED PROGRAM:
/2/,/4/ {
/2/! {
/4/ d
p
}
}
INPUT: 'STDIN' line 1
PATTERN: 1
COMMAND: /2/,/4/ {
COMMAND: }
END-OF-CYCLE:
INPUT: 'STDIN' line 2
PATTERN: 2
COMMAND: /2/,/4/ {
COMMAND: /2/! {
COMMAND: }
COMMAND: }
END-OF-CYCLE:
INPUT: 'STDIN' line 3
PATTERN: 3
COMMAND: /2/,/4/ {
COMMAND: /2/! {
COMMAND: /4/ d
COMMAND: p
3
COMMAND: }
COMMAND: }
END-OF-CYCLE:
INPUT: 'STDIN' line 4
PATTERN: 4
COMMAND: /2/,/4/ {
COMMAND: /2/! {
COMMAND: /4/ d
END-OF-CYCLE:
INPUT: 'STDIN' line 5
PATTERN: 5
COMMAND: /2/,/4/ {
COMMAND: }
END-OF-CYCLE:
Grep only exact last 4 digits from Number file.
$ cat test
12298700077
56198700770
23192604888
34198701041
89198701285
$ cat test | grep 0077
12298700077
56198700770
Required output is just this
12298700077
Use regex and especially (man 7 regex): '$' (matching the null string at the end of a line):
$ grep 0077$ file
12298700077
Trying to trim the output of a command on terminal. I want to see only strings after blah in a command line output. I tried
<command> | grep -A "blah"
but getting an error output as
grep: illegal option -- A
I am using cut in-conjunction with grep to get strings after a keyword "blah" in this case
echo "random text string blah strings after" | grep -o "blah.*$" | cut -c 5-
grep portion of command extracts whole line after "blah" including "blah" and cut command removes first 4 characters from this string. Only first occurrence of "blah" will be used as delimiter to trim the line.
example file :
foobar random text foobar random text foobar
text
text
text
If I use grep and search for the word foobar, how can I prevent grep to return me the first line 3 times, because it founds 3 times foobar ? What I would like to have is only one return per line, even if the word has been found multiple times on the line
Simple awk alternative:
awk '/\<foobar\>/{print NR,"foobar"}' file
The output(for your exemplary input):
1 foobar
\< and \> mean word boundaries
NR - contains current line number
With perl:
perl -ne 'print $.," ",$1,"\n" if /\b(foobar)\b/' file
The output:
1 foobar
file.txt:
foobar random text foobar random text foobar
text
text
text
command:
grep foobar file.txt
output:
foobar random text foobar random text foobar
grep version: GNU grep 3.4
So, the line containing foobar is shown only once. If you see more lines, include option -n to see the line numbers of each output line, i.e.,
grep -n foobar file.txt
I am trying hard to get the output as I Like.
Current Output:
###Server1###
2
###Server2###
0
###Server3###
5
###Server4###
0
Required Output:
###Server1###
2
###Server3###
5
All I am looking is to grep and ignore any line and the previous line that containts 0 (zero) in any place of the line. I am using bash shell.
This is a possible approach:
$ grep -B 1 "^\s*[1-9]$" file
###Server1###
2
--
###Server3###
5
To get rid of the group separator, we can also do:
$ grep --no-group-separator -B 1 "^\s*[1-9]$" file
###Server1###
2
###Server3###
5
Explanation
Instead of using grep -v to find the inverse, I think it is easier to look for the lines having a single digit value not being 0. This is done with the "^\s*[1-9]$" expression, that allows spaces before the digit.
With -B 1 we make it print also the line before the matched one.
Code for GNU sed:
sed '$!N;/\s*\b0\b\s*/d' file
$ sed '$!N;/\s*\b0\b\s*/d' file
###Server1###
2
###Server3###
5