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From: donn@mcgp1.UUCP (Donn F Pedro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Help a novice: Will "sed" do?
Message-ID: <1985@mcgp1.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 11:03:10 GMT
References: <2180@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <10540@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: donn@mcgp1.UUCP (Donn F Pedro)
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In article <2180@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rostamia@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Dr. Rouben Rostamian) writes:
>I need a command or a script that searches a text file for a given
>word or pattern and prints out all paragraphs that contain that word
>or pattern.  Paragraphs are blocks of text separated by one or 
>more blank lines.

Try this: 

		nawk ' BEGIN {
		             RS=""
		             ORS="\n\n"
			     }
		     /pattern/
		     ' file

Works for me on:

		UNIX system V release 3.1.1


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