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how to grep and print the next N lines after the hit?

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Mar 15, 2026173229 views
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I would like to grep for an occurrence in a text file, then print the following N lines after each occurrence found. Any ideas?

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Grep has the following options that will let you do this (and things like it). You may want to take a look at the man page for more information: -A num Print num lines of trailing context after each match. See also the -B and -C options. -B num Print num lines of leading context before each match. See also the -A and -C options. -C[num] Print num lines of leading and trailing context surrounding each match. The default is 2 and is equivalent to -A 2 -B 2. Note: no whitespace may be given betwee…

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