sed/grep question (multiple searches, 1 files)

[phreaqo]

I have several text files with over 100 lines each. I would like to do a search that will look for the first instance of the keyword "first {", then search within 10 lines after that keyword for a second keyword "second", and return the file names of the files that match this criteria. In other words, the search looks for the line number that contains "first {", then from that line number, it will search the next 10 lines for "second", and prints out the file name of matches.

I am not too familiar with grep or sed so any help will be appreciated.

[fiomba]

Hi phreaqo,
I had to work hard to find a solution (perhaps Linux gurus will ptropose much better solutions)
but your problem was very interesting to me...

for i in `ls -1 p*.html`;do  > x;echo $i >>x; cat $i| grep -A10 '<title' >>x; cat x|..
    tr  '\n' '~' >y; cat y|grep '<body'|cut -d'~' -f1  ;done

Now a bit of explanation for this clumsy solution...

for i in `ls -1 p*.html`     # I used as an example several html files
do                           #      searching tag title and then body (within 10 lines)

    > x                                      # create file 'x' with 0 length
    echo $i >>x                              # write the name of html file in x
    cat $i| grep -A10 '<title' >>x           # list each html file and search for '<:tile' 
                                             #     (appendig the result in x)
    cat x|tr  '\n' '~' >y
    cat y|grep '<body'|cut -d'~' -f1  
                                             # list x, in a single string (\n -->tilde)
                                             #     and then search for the 2nd tag
                                             # having as output only the html name
                                             #      containg the 2 tags
done

Bye.

[phreaqo]

Fiomba,

Thank you so much for your help and the detailed explanation. As an added bonus, your description will also give me a firmer grasp of scripting.

Many thanks,
phreaqo