Script "Pattern matching help"

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

I have a file having following contents:

Hostname:
Comments:

This may contain several lines arranged in fashion as given above.

I want to grab those hosts having development in comment field.

If I try doing it using egrep, Hostname line is anyways getting included even if it is not development box. What can be the turn around. I appreciate all your help.

Thanks
Prashant

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Prashant,

You could adapt this hint from "Handy One Liners for Sed" (attached):

# print 1 line of context before and after regexp, with line number
# indicating where the regexp occurred (similar to "grep -A1 -B1")
sed -n -e '/regexp/{=;x;1!p;g;$!N;p;D;}' -e h


Pete

[Rodney Hills]

How about "awk"-

awk '/^Hostname/{h=$0};/^Comments: Devel/{print h}' yourfile

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

That was great. I have did it using sed. Just nice.

Thanks and regards
Prashant

[Tim D Fulford]

perl is also an option

perl -ane 'if (m/Hostname/) {$hst="@F"}; if (m/Comments: Development/) {print "$hst \n"}' file

Just another way of doing the same in a funkier/newer language.

Redards