how to Show 5 lines after the match of a specific word like "Charlie" in ubuntu with terminal
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Pls add example string you want to match a word from – sumitya Jun 15 '16 at 18:38
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Possible duplicate of [Grep a file, but show several surrounding lines?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9081/grep-a-file-but-show-several-surrounding-lines) – ti7 Jun 15 '16 at 18:38
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Display 5 lines after the match of the word “Bombay”. @syadav – James Jun 15 '16 at 18:41
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@syadav i am waiting for your answer – James Jun 15 '16 at 18:47
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Welcome to SO community. Please refer [how to ask](http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) to ask question in a better way. – sumitya Jun 15 '16 at 18:57
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Display 5 lines after the match of the word “charlie”. please help on this @syadav – James Jun 15 '16 at 19:04
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Below is the input file test.txt
$cat test.txt
Charlie:Harry:Ram
Charlie:Harry:Ram
Charlie:Harry:Ram
Charlie:Harry:Ram
Charlie:Harry:Ram
Charlie:Harry:Ram
Charlie:Harry:Ram
Run this command to get 5 lines.
grep Charlie test1|head -5
output:-
Charlie:Harry:Ram
Charlie:Harry:Ram
Charlie:Harry:Ram
Charlie:Harry:Ram
Charlie:Harry:Ram
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not like that gege gege Charlie a b c d e f this is the input and the out put comes like a b c d e f inshort after charlie 5 line comes @syadav – James Jun 15 '16 at 18:58
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I believe the following is what you're looking for, but your question is not particularly clear. Please post more information, such as a section of the file you're searching in if this doesn't answer your question!
grep -A 5 "Charlie" myfile.txt
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