[ale] Perl Question

[kenn at pcintelligent.com (Ken Nagorski)]

Actully neither of those work, but DUH, grep -2 $pattern file from the
shell did it, you see egrep doesn't repeat lines so it works even if there
is a match only one ilne below.

Ken

 On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Danny Cox wrote:

> Ken,
> 
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Danny Cox wrote:
> > > I have a little perl problem, lets say I have a grep and it returns true.
> > > I want to not only print that line but I wanna print the line
> > > below. Anyone know how I noght do this?
> > 
> > 	See the '-A' option to grep (at least, GNU grep).
> > 
> > 		grep -A1 'pattern' file
> > 
> > 	will do what you wish.
> 
> 	Whups!  I missed the 'perl' part.  Well, you could use the system()
> function in the same way.
> 
> Danny
> 
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