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From: ip@me.utoronto.ca (Bevis Ip)
Subject: Re: Finding words in paragraphs
Message-ID: <89Jul17.172655edt.19593@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering
References: <8421@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <10545@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 17:26:53 EDT

In article <10545@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>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

That is a problem.  But, Doug, I'm kind of surprised at the comment you made
in your last article though.  Try this, it is simplified from something that
I wrote to search bibliographies without having to use indxbib.  I haven't
check but I think the hold buffer in sed is dynamically expended, so paragraph
size might not be a problem in most implementations.

bevis

[ To the original poster:  I wasn't too careful when I cut my script to
	you; here's the correct one. ]

--------
#!/bin/sh
for i
do
	SEARCH="$SEARCH -e /$i/!b"
done
sed -n -e '/^$/b gotcha' -e H -e '$b gotcha' -e b \
	-e :gotcha -e x $SEARCH -e p
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