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Never be afraid to reuse code! Simplest Perl script to do this:
perl -e 'system "grep -A 3 ^id: $ARGV[0]"' file
Or as a non-perl command:
grep -A 3 ^id: file
This might require you to install (GNU) grep, but luckely, that has ported to a wide range of platforms.