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how to print line mathing a pattern and line immediately above it 2

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jdhahbi

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Hi
how to print line matching a pattern and line immediately above it?
thanks
joseph
 
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Something like this ?
Code: 
awk '/pattern/{print x"\n"$0}{x=$0}' /path/to/input

Hope This Helps, PH.
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