Re: grep : Paragraph Parameter

[Jürgen Kahrs]

Stepan Kasal wrote:

>>Here is the part of the manual page on AIX:
>>-p[Separator] 
>>   Displays the entire paragraph containing matched lines. [...]
>>   The default paragraph separator is a blank line.
> 
> This looks like a perfect job for awk (gawk, or any POSIX implementation):

Indeed. Martin has re-invented the basic principle
of AWK: read the data line-wise, whatever the EOL
characters are.

AWK is most often presented to users as a variant
of SED. Therefore, most users dont know that AWK
has control-flow mechanisms. Maybe it would be better
if AWK was advertised as GREP-with-actions.