Re: Best way to grab lines n thru x of a file

I think a simpler solution would be to use head and tail:

head -n x > file.txt
tail -n x-n file.txt > file2.txt


Xavier Noria wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2008, at 18:24 , Jonathan Mast wrote:
> 
>> Hi, I have a ~125MB file of which I want to read lines n thru n+x and 
>> write
>> those into a separate file.  What is the best way to go about this?
> 
> Tie::File
> 

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