grep -p --- is there an equivalent??

[denisl]

Does anyone what command/script could be used to achieve the same as AIX's grep -p for use on other unix systems like HP-UX or Solaris?

Thanks,
Denis

 

[harris79]

It would help if you said what grep -p does.

Steve

 

[denisl]

Okay.. My mistake.
grep -p 'grep's' the entire paragraph that the search argument is in.. For example:

grep -p 'argument' would return everything I just typed above..

Thanks..

 

[KenCunningham]

The AIX man page for grep has this re. the -p option:

"-p[Separator] Displays the entire paragraph containing matched lines. Paragraphs are delimited by paragraph separators, as specified by the Separator parameter,
which are patterns in the same form as the search pattern. Lines containing the paragraph separators are used only as separators; they are never included in the output. The default paragraph separator is a blank line."

Does this help anyone? I don't know of an equivalent in Solaris/HP.