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I want to filter out several lines before and after a matching line in a file. This will remove the line that I don't want: $ grep -v "line that i don't want" And this will print the 2 lines before and after the line I don't want: $ grep -C 2 "line that i don't want" But when I combine them it does not filter out the 2 lines before and after the line I don't want: # does not remove 2 lines before and after the line I don't want: $ grep -v -C 2 "line that i don't want" How do I filter out not just the line I don't want, but also the lines before and after it? I'm guessing sed would be better for this... Edit: I know this could be done in a few lines of awk/Perl/Python/Ruby/etc, but I want to know if there is a succinct one-liner I could run from the command line.
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