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Discard my previous message. I am all set. Thanks again :)[medal]

Not a big deal but could we do the whole code in one liner? Again, it is not a big deal but it is more just my curiosity.

Thank you mikrom, your suggested code worked the way I wanted. Amazed by a simple solution like this. I was over thinking of achieving this using "for" loop with NR-- nonsense. But it appears sometimes there is any easy solution if you think creatively. Thanks again and Happy new year.

Thanks for your response. Let me explain the output requirement one more time. My apologies if it was not clear. I am not a programmer. TEST FILE: =========== edit policy mars set src abc edit policy abc edit policy yahoo edit policy bbc set dst sds set src ggg edit policy cnn edit policy XXX...

By the way, the reason why I am not able to use "grep -B" the file may contain # of "set" commands with other variables before "edit policy" command e.g. the file could look this this : TEST FILE: =========== edit policy mars set src abc edit policy abc edit policy yahoo edit policy bbc set...

TEST FILE: =========== edit policy mars set src abc edit policy abc edit policy yahoo edit policy bbc edit policy cnn edit policy XXX set dst abc edit policy yyy set src abc ========================= What I want to do here is find "abc" in the text file (could be 100+ lines) and only display...