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I have something like grep "keyword" -B 3 log. It shows a lot of results, like:

some trash
[GET] /orders/42
one more trash
keyword and useful info

[GET] /orders/43
some trash
one more trash
keyword and useful info

some trash
one more trash
[GET] /orders/44
keyword and useful info

How can I save each grep result into a separate file 42, 43, 44 with keyword and useful info line. Each grep result is guaranteed have one [GET] /orders/[0-9]* line.

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  • Yes some lines between keyword and id exists (one, two or zero). But no overlap. Commented Jul 14, 2016 at 11:20
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    Please edit your question and show us an example of your input file and your desired output. We can probably give you a better solution than grep but we can't if we don't know your data. Commented Jul 14, 2016 at 11:30
  • Do you actually need those "trash" lines or do you only need the lines with keyword, each one saved in a file named after the value of the preceding unique_id ? Commented Jul 14, 2016 at 11:40
  • only line with keywords Commented Jul 14, 2016 at 11:41

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awk -v keyword=keyword -F/ '/\[GET\]/ { id=$NF; next } $0 ~ keyword { print $0 > id }' log
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  • Maybe you missed $ before id? { print $0 > id } to { print $0 > $id } Commented Jul 14, 2016 at 12:28
  • Oh no, it's ok. Sorry Commented Jul 14, 2016 at 12:30

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