Hello, I have a text file full of records, one record per line. I'd like to do a keyword search similar to... sed -n /keyword/p but return not only the matching line, I also want the previous three and the next three with it (if there are less than three in either direction I want as many as possible). Since sed is a stream editor I believe it only receives one line at a time so it may not be possible to do this, would awk give me the additional capability I need? How about sed with a little shell scripting. I know someone will suggest Perl but I don't know it and don't really want to learn it today so let's save that for a last resort. Any other ideas? Thanks, Ben. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list