I have to print 81 lines after each occurrence of the expression "AAA" from my input file. How do I go about that?
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See Question&Answers more detail:osThe following idioms describe how to select a range of records given a specific pattern to match:
a) Print all records from some pattern:
awk '/pattern/{f=1}f' file
b) Print all records after some pattern:
awk 'f;/pattern/{f=1}' file
c) Print the Nth record after some pattern:
awk 'c&&!--c;/pattern/{c=N}' file
d) Print every record except the Nth record after some pattern:
awk 'c&&!--c{next}/pattern/{c=N}1' file
e) Print the N records after some pattern:
awk 'c&&c--;/pattern/{c=N}' file
f) Print every record except the N records after some pattern:
awk 'c&&c--{next}/pattern/{c=N}1' file
g) Print the N records from some pattern:
awk '/pattern/{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.
So, you'd want "e" above:
awk 'c&&c--;/AAA/{c=81}' file