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alwbtc
alwbtc

Reputation: 29495

How to grep a string after a specified line number?

I have a large text file, I want to see the lines containing "time spent" in this text file, I use:

grep -in "time spent" myfile.txt

But I'm interested only in the lines after 50000. In the output I want to see lines after 50000 and that contain "time spent". Is there a way to do this?

Upvotes: 33

Views: 55264

Answers (4)

neric
neric

Reputation: 4241

Alternatively you can use sed. sed can be used to mimic grep like this:

sed -n 's/pattern/&/p'

By default sed prints every line even if no substitution occurs. The combinations of -n and /p makes sed print only the lines where a substitution has occured. Finally, we replace pattern by & which means replace pattern by itself. Result: we just mimicked grep.

Now sed can take a range of lines on which to act. In your case:

sed -n '50000,$s/time spent/&/p' myfile.txt

The format to specify the range is as follow: start,end We just instruct sed to work from line 50000 to $ which means last line.

Upvotes: 7

K.K
K.K

Reputation: 2667

Answer for grepping between any 2 line numbers:

Using sed and grep:

sed -n '1,50000p' someFile | grep < your_string >

Upvotes: 8

don_crissti
don_crissti

Reputation: 411

You could use head + grep and group commands with {...} so that they share the same input:

{ head -n 50000 >/dev/null; grep -i PATTERN; } < infile

head doesn't consume the whole input, it gets only the first 50000 lines and dumps them to /dev/null; the remaining lines are processed by grep.
If you need the line numbers prepended (like with grep -in) you could use awk:

awk 'NR>50000 && tolower($0)~/PATTERN/{print NR ": " $0}' infile

Upvotes: 2

adray
adray

Reputation: 1448

You can tail it, then grep:

tail -n +50000 myfile.txt | grep -in "time spent"

Upvotes: 57

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