Grep multiple lines from a file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

I would like to ask if there is any method to grep a chuck of lines based on the latest file in a directory.

E.g

Latest file in the directory:
Line 1: 532243
Line 2: 123456
Line 3: 334566
Line 4: 44567545

I wanted to grep all the line after line 2 i.e. Line 3 and line 4 and then writing them in a file.

Cheers

2

is your pattern is fixed??
I mean pattern is always 123456??
or you want to print only line 3 and 4 from all files??

3

@dwgi32: from grep, you mean to say the output of lines itself?

you want the output of the latest file from third line onwards in a new file?

4

Yes, the pattern is fixed

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Yes. > a.txt

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awk '/Line 2/{f=1;next};f' file
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tail +3 <latest-file> | grep 123456 > new_file.txt