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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Command to display nth line before the string is matched. Post 302254837 by SFNYC on Wednesday 5th of November 2008 10:09:00 AM
Old 11-05-2008
How about something like this?

Code:
$ cat file.dat
a
b
c
d
e
f

LINE=$(grep -n f file.dat|cut -d: -f1) && LINE=$(($LINE-3)) && head -n $LINE file.dat|tail -1
c

 

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