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Consider the following text file

one 1

two 2

three 3

four 4

five 5

six 6

seven 7

eight 8

I would like to access to the second line after the one which matched four. This would be the line

six 6

The resulting line (so the one above) would then be piped for further processing (say, a | cut -d' ' -f2).

Is there a way to do this in bash and other typical utilities? (otherwise I will script it in Python)

linux command-line bash grep

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  Will there always only be one occurrence of what you are trying to match? Will it always be two lines after?
  
  – Nasir Riley
  4 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Use awk? But if you're more familiar with Python that would be quicker.
  
  – MZB
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

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1

1

Consider the following text file

one 1

two 2

three 3

four 4

five 5

six 6

seven 7

eight 8

I would like to access to the second line after the one which matched four. This would be the line

six 6

The resulting line (so the one above) would then be piped for further processing (say, a | cut -d' ' -f2).

Is there a way to do this in bash and other typical utilities? (otherwise I will script it in Python)

linux command-line bash grep

share|improve this question

asked 4 hours ago

WoJWoJ

82232238

• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Will there always only be one occurrence of what you are trying to match? Will it always be two lines after?
  
  – Nasir Riley
  4 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Use awk? But if you're more familiar with Python that would be quicker.
  
  – MZB
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

Consider the following text file

one 1

two 2

three 3

four 4

five 5

six 6

seven 7

eight 8

I would like to access to the second line after the one which matched four. This would be the line

six 6

The resulting line (so the one above) would then be piped for further processing (say, a | cut -d' ' -f2).

Is there a way to do this in bash and other typical utilities? (otherwise I will script it in Python)

linux command-line bash grep

share|improve this question

asked 4 hours ago

WoJWoJ

82232238

one 1

two 2

three 3

four 4

five 5

six 6

seven 7

eight 8

six 6

share|improve this question

asked 4 hours ago

WoJWoJ

82232238

share|improve this question

asked 4 hours ago

WoJWoJ

82232238

asked 4 hours ago

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There is nothing wrong with the previous two answers, but I thought I would make you aware that finding the third line after a pattern can be done in a single sed call:

sed -n "/four/ { n; n; p }" SourceData.txt

Because a single program does the work, this is more efficient than running multiple filters. The above command outputs the third line after every instance of "four", except where this occurs again in one of the two lines following a match (the other solutions don't handle this case in the expected manner either); also, no output is generated if the pattern is in the last or second-last line of the file, which may or may not be what you want.

To match the first instance only:

sed -n "/four/ { n; n; p; q }" SourceData.txt

I add this solution because it is worth getting to know sed and, despite its rather off-putting syntax (regular expressions are bad enough!), it can often be extremely useful. This tutorial is a good introduction.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

AFHAFH

14.4k31938

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  "the other solutions don't handle this case in the expected manner either" – No longer true. :)
  
  – Kamil Maciorowski
  49 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

1

You can use this expression (input.txt):

grep "four" -A 2 input.txt | tail -n 1

Output is:

six 6

The grep option "-A 2" states that two lines after the matched line are outputted.

And the tail option "-n 1" states that only the last 1 lines of this result are returned.

share|improve this answer

answered 4 hours ago

zx485zx485

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0

For multiple occurences, and assumming that no lines start with --:

( grep -A 2  pattern data.txt; echo '--' ) | grep -E -B1 '^--' | grep -Ev '^--'

In slo-mo:

• 
  ( grep -A 2 pattern data.txt; echo '--' ) prints the pattern and the next two lines, and inserts a -- line between the groups. echo '--' makes sure that the last group is also followed by --.


• 
  grep -E -B1 '^--' print the separators and the lines just before (whoch are the ones we are looking for)


• 
  grep -Ev '^--' drops the separators, leaving only the lines we are looking for.

share|improve this answer

answered 3 hours ago

xenoidxenoid

3,8193719

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  if you use the -A, -B or -C option then grep automatically use -- to separate matches, no need to print it yourself
  
  – phuclv
  2 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

0

This solution prints the current line iff there was a match two lines ago. It is slightly different from other answers (so far) because it won't miss another match even if it occurs soon after the previous match.

awk -v delay=2 '{for (i=delay; i>=0; i--) t[i]=t[i-1]}; /four/ {t[0]="m"}; {if (t[delay]) print}'

Whenever there's a match, the information is stored in t[0]. With each line the t array is shifted (including shifting t[-1] to t[0] to reset the value of t[0]). The line is printed iff the array indicates there was a match two lines ago.

You can easily set a different delay (e.g. delay=7) or use another pattern (e.g. /sda[[:digit:]]/)

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3

There is nothing wrong with the previous two answers, but I thought I would make you aware that finding the third line after a pattern can be done in a single sed call:

sed -n "/four/ { n; n; p }" SourceData.txt

Because a single program does the work, this is more efficient than running multiple filters. The above command outputs the third line after every instance of "four", except where this occurs again in one of the two lines following a match (the other solutions don't handle this case in the expected manner either); also, no output is generated if the pattern is in the last or second-last line of the file, which may or may not be what you want.

To match the first instance only:

sed -n "/four/ { n; n; p; q }" SourceData.txt

I add this solution because it is worth getting to know sed and, despite its rather off-putting syntax (regular expressions are bad enough!), it can often be extremely useful. This tutorial is a good introduction.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

AFHAFH

14.4k31938

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  "the other solutions don't handle this case in the expected manner either" – No longer true. :)
  
  – Kamil Maciorowski
  49 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

3

There is nothing wrong with the previous two answers, but I thought I would make you aware that finding the third line after a pattern can be done in a single sed call:

sed -n "/four/ { n; n; p }" SourceData.txt

Because a single program does the work, this is more efficient than running multiple filters. The above command outputs the third line after every instance of "four", except where this occurs again in one of the two lines following a match (the other solutions don't handle this case in the expected manner either); also, no output is generated if the pattern is in the last or second-last line of the file, which may or may not be what you want.

To match the first instance only:

sed -n "/four/ { n; n; p; q }" SourceData.txt

I add this solution because it is worth getting to know sed and, despite its rather off-putting syntax (regular expressions are bad enough!), it can often be extremely useful. This tutorial is a good introduction.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

AFHAFH

14.4k31938

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  "the other solutions don't handle this case in the expected manner either" – No longer true. :)
  
  – Kamil Maciorowski
  49 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

There is nothing wrong with the previous two answers, but I thought I would make you aware that finding the third line after a pattern can be done in a single sed call:

sed -n "/four/ { n; n; p }" SourceData.txt

Because a single program does the work, this is more efficient than running multiple filters. The above command outputs the third line after every instance of "four", except where this occurs again in one of the two lines following a match (the other solutions don't handle this case in the expected manner either); also, no output is generated if the pattern is in the last or second-last line of the file, which may or may not be what you want.

To match the first instance only:

sed -n "/four/ { n; n; p; q }" SourceData.txt

I add this solution because it is worth getting to know sed and, despite its rather off-putting syntax (regular expressions are bad enough!), it can often be extremely useful. This tutorial is a good introduction.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

AFHAFH

14.4k31938

sed -n "/four/ { n; n; p }" SourceData.txt

sed -n "/four/ { n; n; p; q }" SourceData.txt

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answered 2 hours ago

AFHAFH

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answered 2 hours ago

AFHAFH

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answered 2 hours ago

AFHAFH

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1

You can use this expression (input.txt):

grep "four" -A 2 input.txt | tail -n 1

Output is:

six 6

The grep option "-A 2" states that two lines after the matched line are outputted.

And the tail option "-n 1" states that only the last 1 lines of this result are returned.

share|improve this answer

answered 4 hours ago

zx485zx485

1,0311913

add a comment | 

1

You can use this expression (input.txt):

grep "four" -A 2 input.txt | tail -n 1

Output is:

six 6

The grep option "-A 2" states that two lines after the matched line are outputted.

And the tail option "-n 1" states that only the last 1 lines of this result are returned.

share|improve this answer

answered 4 hours ago

zx485zx485

1,0311913

add a comment | 

You can use this expression (input.txt):

grep "four" -A 2 input.txt | tail -n 1

Output is:

six 6

The grep option "-A 2" states that two lines after the matched line are outputted.

And the tail option "-n 1" states that only the last 1 lines of this result are returned.

share|improve this answer

answered 4 hours ago

zx485zx485

1,0311913

grep "four" -A 2 input.txt | tail -n 1

six 6

share|improve this answer

answered 4 hours ago

zx485zx485

1,0311913

answered 4 hours ago

zx485zx485

1,0311913

answered 4 hours ago

zx485zx485

1,0311913

0

For multiple occurences, and assumming that no lines start with --:

( grep -A 2  pattern data.txt; echo '--' ) | grep -E -B1 '^--' | grep -Ev '^--'

In slo-mo:

• 
  ( grep -A 2 pattern data.txt; echo '--' ) prints the pattern and the next two lines, and inserts a -- line between the groups. echo '--' makes sure that the last group is also followed by --.


• 
  grep -E -B1 '^--' print the separators and the lines just before (whoch are the ones we are looking for)


• 
  grep -Ev '^--' drops the separators, leaving only the lines we are looking for.

share|improve this answer

answered 3 hours ago

xenoidxenoid

3,8193719

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  if you use the -A, -B or -C option then grep automatically use -- to separate matches, no need to print it yourself
  
  – phuclv
  2 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

0

For multiple occurences, and assumming that no lines start with --:

( grep -A 2  pattern data.txt; echo '--' ) | grep -E -B1 '^--' | grep -Ev '^--'

In slo-mo:

• 
  ( grep -A 2 pattern data.txt; echo '--' ) prints the pattern and the next two lines, and inserts a -- line between the groups. echo '--' makes sure that the last group is also followed by --.


• 
  grep -E -B1 '^--' print the separators and the lines just before (whoch are the ones we are looking for)


• 
  grep -Ev '^--' drops the separators, leaving only the lines we are looking for.

share|improve this answer

answered 3 hours ago

xenoidxenoid

3,8193719

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  if you use the -A, -B or -C option then grep automatically use -- to separate matches, no need to print it yourself
  
  – phuclv
  2 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

For multiple occurences, and assumming that no lines start with --:

( grep -A 2  pattern data.txt; echo '--' ) | grep -E -B1 '^--' | grep -Ev '^--'

In slo-mo:

• 
  ( grep -A 2 pattern data.txt; echo '--' ) prints the pattern and the next two lines, and inserts a -- line between the groups. echo '--' makes sure that the last group is also followed by --.


• 
  grep -E -B1 '^--' print the separators and the lines just before (whoch are the ones we are looking for)


• 
  grep -Ev '^--' drops the separators, leaving only the lines we are looking for.

share|improve this answer

answered 3 hours ago

xenoidxenoid

3,8193719

( grep -A 2  pattern data.txt; echo '--' ) | grep -E -B1 '^--' | grep -Ev '^--'

share|improve this answer

answered 3 hours ago

xenoidxenoid

3,8193719

answered 3 hours ago

xenoidxenoid

3,8193719

answered 3 hours ago

xenoidxenoid

3,8193719

0

This solution prints the current line iff there was a match two lines ago. It is slightly different from other answers (so far) because it won't miss another match even if it occurs soon after the previous match.

awk -v delay=2 '{for (i=delay; i>=0; i--) t[i]=t[i-1]}; /four/ {t[0]="m"}; {if (t[delay]) print}'

Whenever there's a match, the information is stored in t[0]. With each line the t array is shifted (including shifting t[-1] to t[0] to reset the value of t[0]). The line is printed iff the array indicates there was a match two lines ago.

You can easily set a different delay (e.g. delay=7) or use another pattern (e.g. /sda[[:digit:]]/)

share|improve this answer

answered 52 mins ago

Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski

28.3k156186

add a comment | 

0

This solution prints the current line iff there was a match two lines ago. It is slightly different from other answers (so far) because it won't miss another match even if it occurs soon after the previous match.

awk -v delay=2 '{for (i=delay; i>=0; i--) t[i]=t[i-1]}; /four/ {t[0]="m"}; {if (t[delay]) print}'

Whenever there's a match, the information is stored in t[0]. With each line the t array is shifted (including shifting t[-1] to t[0] to reset the value of t[0]). The line is printed iff the array indicates there was a match two lines ago.

You can easily set a different delay (e.g. delay=7) or use another pattern (e.g. /sda[[:digit:]]/)

share|improve this answer

answered 52 mins ago

Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski

28.3k156186

add a comment | 

This solution prints the current line iff there was a match two lines ago. It is slightly different from other answers (so far) because it won't miss another match even if it occurs soon after the previous match.

awk -v delay=2 '{for (i=delay; i>=0; i--) t[i]=t[i-1]}; /four/ {t[0]="m"}; {if (t[delay]) print}'

Whenever there's a match, the information is stored in t[0]. With each line the t array is shifted (including shifting t[-1] to t[0] to reset the value of t[0]). The line is printed iff the array indicates there was a match two lines ago.

You can easily set a different delay (e.g. delay=7) or use another pattern (e.g. /sda[[:digit:]]/)

share|improve this answer

answered 52 mins ago

Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski

28.3k156186

awk -v delay=2 '{for (i=delay; i>=0; i--) t[i]=t[i-1]}; /four/ {t[0]="m"}; {if (t[delay]) print}'

share|improve this answer

answered 52 mins ago

Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski

28.3k156186

answered 52 mins ago

Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski

28.3k156186

answered 52 mins ago

Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski

28.3k156186