Help a novice: Will "sed" do?

[Donn F Pedro]

In article <2180 at umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rostamia at umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Dr. Rouben Rostamian) writes:
>I need a command or a script that searches a text file for a given
>word or pattern and prints out all paragraphs that contain that word
>or pattern.  Paragraphs are blocks of text separated by one or 
>more blank lines.

Try this: 

		nawk ' BEGIN {
		             RS=""
		             ORS="\n\n"
			     }
		     /pattern/
		     ' file

Works for me on:

		UNIX system V release 3.1.1


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