Get previous line of the searched paramter line

[siddukirk]

Hi all,

the below shown is the text

Test: level1/core/hc_attrappendchild5
Status: failure
Detail: throw_WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: assertTrue failed
Test: level1/core/hc_elementchangeattributevalue
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_namednodemapnotfounderr
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_characterdatasetnodevalue
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_elementnotfounderr
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_elementremoveattributenode
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_elementassociatedattribute
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_nodegetlastchildnull
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_documentcreatedocumentfragment
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_nodevalue05
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_nodedocumentfragmentnodetype
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_attrprevioussiblingnull
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_nodelisttraverselist
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_characterdataindexsizeerrreplacedatacountnegati ve
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_nodeinsertbeforenewchilddiffdocument
Status: failure
Detail: throw_WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: assertTrue failed
Test: level1/core/hc_namednodemapgetnameditem
Status: Success
Test: level1/core/hc_elementgetattributenode
Status: Success


using awk or sed script or any of the core utilities

how can i get only the ones which are reporting failure in this fashion

Test: level1/core/hc_nodeinsertbeforenewchilddiffdocument[/url]
Status: failure
Detail: throw_WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: assertTrue failed
Test: level1/core/hc_nodeinsertbeforenewchilddiffdocument[/url]
Status: failure
Detail: throw_WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: assertTrue failed


Regards,
Siddu

[nirajkanti]

I think you are asking the lines which have only "failure" at the end right??

let say "file1.log" having all these lines.

use:-

$ grep "failure" file1.log > failure.log

grep will search only those lines containing "failure" from file1.log file
and then output it to failure.log