Usually grep command is used to display the line contaning the specified pattern. Is there any way to display n lines before and after the line which contains the specified pattern?
Can this will be achieved using awk?
Answer
Yes, use
grep -B num1 -A num2
to include num1 lines of context before the match, and num2 lines of context after the match.
EDIT:
Seems the OP is using AIX. This has a different set of options which doesn't include -B and -A
this link describes grep on AIX 4.3 (it doesn't look promising)
Matt's perl script might be a better solution.