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Find a pattern with grep but only print out 5 lines above the matching line.
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| grep -B5 "pattern" filename | awk -F '\n' 'ln ~ /^$/ { ln = "matched"; print $1 } $1 ~ /^--$/ { ln = "" }' |
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