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

or use head and tail command

head -n50 file | tail -n30

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Chas. Owens <chas.owens@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Jonathan Mast
> <jhmast.developer@gmail.com> 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?
> >
> >  thanks
> >
>
> Use the flip-flop operator* (..):
>
> perl -ne 'print if $. == 20 .. $. == 50' file
>
> * http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Range-Operators
>
>
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