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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding words in paragraphs
Message-ID: <10545@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Jul 89 18:00:53 GMT
References: <8421@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8421@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> lacey@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey) writes:
>Awk is what you want in this case.  Try something like this:
>	awk 'BEGIN { FS = ""; RS = "\n"} /the-word-here/' the-filename-here

$ awk 'BEGIN { FS = ""; RS = "\n"} /test/' > foo
This isn't it.
Try again.

The requirement is to print the whole paragraph.
This is a test.
End of paragraph.

Done.
^D
$ cat foo
This is a test.
$