Hi, I need to search the string in a file & then print the 12th line before the line where this string occurs (so basically print 12th line previous to this line). I need to know how can i do this using awk? if there is any other way anyone can suggest i would be glad. Vinod

I've been told there's a 'unix provider' for NT. [cyjwin?] And I guess I should get it and learm something. Is the an 'NT provider' for unix? anyone? ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

here's one way [code] awk 'NR==FNR{ array[++c]=$0;next } /search_string/ {print array[FNR-12]} ' "file" "file" [/code]

Mechanix2Go Is the an 'NT provider' for unix? There's Wine

Hi Razor2.3 I forgot about WINE. I tried it way back when, maybe Mandrake 5x. It was shakey. Hopefully ut has improved in the interim. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi, I am pasting the contents of the file below. I will get similar occurances more than 50 times in one file. I need to search for the string "End the test" and then print 11th or 12th line before this line (the one with timestamps). Please test your code & send it to me. Thx in advance Timestamp: Wed Jul 18 04:04:23 PM EDT 2007 Starting Traffic for 20 seconds... Frame Size: 100 2/3 -> TX Frames: 1132112 2/3 -> RX Frames: 1132112 2/3 -> RX Min Latency: 314.02 usec 2/3 -> RX Max Latency: 44480.08 usec 2/3 -> RX AVG Latency: 6103.62 usec 2/3 -> 2/3 Loss: 0 2/3 -> 2/3 Loss Ratio %: 0.000000000 End the test, we are at max rate: 5.133056640625 Frame Sizes (bytes): 100 Rate (%): 5.13 Avg Latency (usec): 6103.62 Min Latency (usec): 314.02 Max Latency (usec): 44480.08 Vinod