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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to search word and get the line above it. Post 302238151 by Jeevan Salunke on Friday 19th of September 2008 05:38:54 AM
Old 09-19-2008
Its not working Smilie

i have typed

grep -b1 PRICE temp.log

also tried

grep -B1 "PRICE" temp.log

it gives me following error...

grep: illegal option -- 1
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
 

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GONZUI-SEARCH(1)						   User Commands						  GONZUI-SEARCH(1)

NAME
gonzui-search - a tool to search a gonzui DB SYNOPSIS
gonzui-search PATTERN DESCRIPTION
-P, --package=PACKAGE search for PACKAGE -p, --prefix perform prefix search -e, --regexp perform regular expression search -t, --type=TYPE search for TYPE funcall, fundef, fundecl, others -n, --line-number print line number with output lines -c, --count only print a count of matching words -C, --context=NUM print NUM lines of output context --color use markers to highlight the matching string -h, --no-filename suppress the prefixing filename on output --gonzuirc=FILE specify alternate run control file --dump-config dump configuration -d, --db-dir=DIR use DB directory DIR --db-cache=NUM use NUM megabytes of DB cache [5] --list-formats list all supported formats --help show this help message -q, --quiet suppress all normal output -v, --verbose output progress and statistics --version print version information and exit gonzui-search 1.3 December 2006 GONZUI-SEARCH(1)
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