Grep ignore multiple lines
grep, shell
Solution
Try awk:
awk -v nlines=2 '/^Exception/ {for (i=0; i<nlines; i++) {getline}; next} 1'
Problem
Is there a way with Grep to use the -v switch to ignore a line and the next number of lines after it. Its basically to filter exceptions from a log file i.e. ``` Valid log entry 1 Exception exceptionname at a.b.c at d.e.f ... Valid log entry 2 ``` grep it to produce : ``` Valid log entry 1 Valid log entry 2 ``` I have tried `grep -v Exception -A 2` but this doesn't work. Any ideas would be appreciated.