Your Question: How Do You Grep Two Lines in Unix?
Contents How Do You Grep Multiple Lines After a Match? for Bsd or Gnu Grep You Can Use -B Num to Set How Many Lines Before the Match and -a Num for the Number...
How do you grep multiple lines after a match?
For BSD or GNU grep you can use -B num to set how many lines before the match and -A num for the number of lines after the match. If you want the same number of lines before and after you can use -C num . This will show 3 lines before and 3 lines after.
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