Using awk or sed to find a pattern that has lines before and after it
Dear gurus,
Please help this beginner to write and understand the required script. I am looking for useing awk for sed.
I have a few thousand lines file whose contain are mostly as below and I am trying to achieve followings.
1. Find a string, say user1. Then hash the line containing the string along with 2 lines before and 1 line after.
2. The script should not hast other lines like user10,11,12 etc.
The file looks like as below.
Thanks in advance
Randy
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