[Cialug] Grep Block of Text

[jim kraai]

sgrep https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/sgrepman.html

what format is that?



On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:04 PM Jared Brees <fromj2sitsme at msn.com> wrote:

> So you're looking for Perl?
>
> :-)
>
> ________________________________
> From: Cialug <cialug-bounces at cialug.org> on behalf of Todd Walton <
> tdwalton at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2019 07:42
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Grep Block of Text
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 8:19 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > More often than I'd expect, I find myself wanting to grep for a certain
> > pattern in a certain file, and have it return the entire block of text
> that
> > the pattern was in. I wish I had a single command that took three
> inputs, a
> > pattern defining the start of the block, a pattern to find, and a pattern
> > defining the end of the block of text.
> >
>
> It'd be super cool if I could search for a pattern and tell it to just
> gimme the block back, without specifying block starts and ends. Like,
> figure it out yourself, little program. Many years back I had a piece of
> DOS software called Monarch that would extract patterns from text. You had
> to enter information about how the text was structured, but it also had
> some ability to do it itself. Like, if you had text in columns it could
> reasonably figure out that you wanted those columns to line up. It was the
> grooviest thing. I'm sure my memory inflates its groovyness a little, but
> it really was awesome. These days I mostly use awk, sed, column, and Miller
> (http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/) for text processing.
>
> --
> Todd
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