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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need 10 lines before the first occurance of a pattern Post 302390167 by Franklin52 on Wednesday 27th of January 2010 05:04:24 AM
Old 01-27-2010
If your grep version don't support the -B option, this should do the job:

Code:
awk '
/check/ {
  for(i=0;i<10;i++) {
    print a[(NR+i)%10]
  }
  exit
}
{a[NR%10]=$0}
' file

 

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NAME
DXmCreateScrolledCSText - Creates a compound string text widget with scroll bars. SYNOPSIS
Widget DXmCreateScrolledCSText( Widget parent, char *name, Args *args, Cardinal num_args ); PARAMETERS
The identifier (widget ID) of the parent widget. The name of the created widget. The application override argument list. The number of arguments in the application override argument list. DESCRIPTION
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