Combine -v option for grep with -A option

Question

I'd like to ask is it possible to combine somehow -v with -A?

I have example file:

abc
1
2
3
ACB
def
abc
1
2
3
ABC
xyz

with -A I can see the parts I want to "cut":

$ grep abc -A 4 grep_v_test.txt
abc
1
2
3
ACB
--
abc
1
2
3
ABC

it there some option to specify something to see only

def
xyz

?

I found this answer - Combining -v flag and -A flag in grep but it is not working for me, I tried

$ sed -e "/abc/{2;2;d}" grep_v_test.txt
sed: -e expression #1, char 8: unknown command: `;'

also

$ sed "/abc/2d" grep_v_test.txt
sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unknown command: `2'

or

$ sed "/abc/+2d" grep_v_test.txt
sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unknown command: `+'

Sed version is:

$ sed --version
GNU sed version 4.2.1

edit1: Based on comment I experimented a little bit with both solution, but it is not working as I want to

for grep -v -A 1 abc I would expect line abc and 1 to be removed, but the rest will be printed awk 'c&&!--c; /abc/ {c=2}' grep_v_test.txt prints just the line containing 2, which is not what I wanted.

Very similar it is with sed

$ sed -n '/abc/{n;n;p}' grep_v_test.txt
2
2

edit2: It seems, I'm not able to describe it properly, let me try again.

What grep -A N abc file does is to print N lines after abc. I want to remove what grep -A will show, so in a file

abc
1
2
3
ACB
def
DEF
abc
1
2
3
ABC
xyz
XYZ

I'll just remove the part abc to ABC and I'll print the rest:

abc
1
2
3
ACB
def
DEF
abc
1
2
3
ABC
xyz
XYZ

so 4 lines will remain... The awk solution prints just def and xyz and skips DEF and XYZ...

Answer 1

If I understand you properly, you want to print all the lines that occur 4 lines after a given match.

For this you can tweak the solutions in Extract Nth line after matching pattern and say:

$ awk '/abc/ {c=0} c++>4' file
def
DEF
xyz
XYZ

Answer 2

To skip 5 lines of context starting with the initial matching line is:

$ awk '/abc/{c=5} c&&c--{next} 1' file
def
xyz

See Extract Nth line after matching pattern for other related scripts.

wrt the comments below, here's the difference between this answer and @fedorqui's answer:

$ cat file
now is the Winter
of our discontent
abc
1
2
bar

$ awk '/abc/{c=3} c&&c--{next} 1' file
now is the Winter
of our discontent
bar

$ awk '/abc/ {c=0} c++>2' file
bar

See how the @fedorqui's script unconditionally skips the first 2 lines of the file?