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[ozi403]

How can I get 20 lines before this line "dublicate or pick name"?

Thanks.

 

[feherke]

Hi

grep -B 20 "dublicate or pick name" /path/to/file

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[PHV]

awk '
/dublicate or pick name/{for(i=20;i;--i)print a[(NR-i)%20];exit}
{a[NR%20]=$0}
' /path/to/input >output


Hope This Helps, PH.
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