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Old 01-02-2009
Franklin52 Franklin52 is online now Forum Staff  
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One way:

awk '/pattern/{print s "\n" $0;exit}{s=$0}' file
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Code:
awk '/pattern/{print s "\n" $0;exit}{s=$0}' file
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