Re: How can I print three lines before pattern match?

Do you have to use Perl?
Of course it has to be Perl! ;-)

Otherwise grep will do it:

grep -B3 pattern logfile

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Re^2: How can I print three lines before pattern match? by neurotoxx (Novice) on Aug 14, 2009 at 20:42 UTC
Unfortunately, I need to have it run as a Windows task. I also need it to traverse the log directory and process each file with the pattern match. Thanks, Neurotoxx	[reply]