Print previous line if condition is met

Question

I would like to grep a word and then find the second column in the line and check if it is bigger than a value. Is yes, I want to print the previous line.

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Answer 1

Combining sed & awk you get this: sed 'N;s/\n/ /' < file |awk '$3>1{print $1}'

sed 'N;s/\n/ / : Combine 1st and 2nd line and replace next line char with space

awk '$3>1{print $1}': print $1(1st column) if $3(3rd column's value is > 1)