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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Printing previous line based on pattern using sed Post 302382533 by freelong on Wednesday 23rd of December 2009 02:12:35 PM
Old 12-23-2009
Here is a quick solution, I think the sections are seperated by a blank line, so set the RS=""; FS="\n"

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
read -r heu
awk -v heu=${heu} 'BEGIN{RS=""; FS="\n"}
{
        if(match($0, heu)) {print $0}
}' FILENAME

Should work, let me know.
 

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