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command to find certain words in a file searching after another word

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dbadmin

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Jan 3, 2003
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Hi gurus,

I need a command to search all files under a directory for a word "beat" and then print another line in the same file with the word "Elapsed"

A typical file will have text like below

Item1 bottle beat
Elapsed:01:01:01

The command "find . -type f -print |xargs grep -i beat" will give all the file names which has a word "beat", how can I print the line Elapsed from the same file.

Any help is really appreciated.

Thanks,
dbadmin
 
Maybe...

grep -l beat * | xargs -l grep Elapsed

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