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okay so I have a list of files and 3 lines containing a word I need to extract from each line basically each file can be looked at like this:

random
random
random
random
LINE 1 TEXT RANDOM TEXT
random
LINE 2 TEXT RANDOM TEXT
random
random
LINE 3 TEXT RANDOM TEXT

and what I'm looking to get is a text file containing this (without the FILE * PART):

FILE1 - LINE 1 TEXT RANDOM TEXT | LINE 2 TEXT RANDOM TEXT | LINE 3 TEXT RANDOM TEXT
FILE2 - LINE 1 TEXT RANDOM TEXT | LINE 2 TEXT RANDOM TEXT | LINE 3 TEXT RANDOM TEXT
FILE3 - LINE 1 TEXT RANDOM TEXT | LINE 2 TEXT RANDOM TEXT | LINE 3 TEXT RANDOM TEXT
FILE4 - LINE 1 TEXT RANDOM TEXT | LINE 2 TEXT RANDOM TEXT | LINE 3 TEXT RANDOM TEXT

TEXT RANDOM TEXT is obviously a random text that I'm looking to find, any help would be appreciated I tried powerGREP but it doesn't have an option to retrieve only unique records from each file

(meaning, only 1 match per search term, I get

LINE 1
LINE 2
LINE 2
LINE 3

)

powerGREP, I tried getting the search terms but got instead of 3 unique lines per file I got some 3 unique lines and some 4, 5, 6 because there are sometimes multiple lines with 1 of the search terms

Gary_W
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