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Apparently, though unproven, at 17:47 on Wednesday 22 September 2010, Al did |
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opine thusly: |
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> >> grela@pazuzu ~ $ cat /etc/passwd | sed -n -e '4,10 p' |
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> > Best solution so far, but useless use of cat, and the subshell overhead |
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> > of the pipe. |
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> Thank you. Nice solutions and they reveal that there is no "belly" |
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> like program in coreutils. |
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> I find it interesting, that the two bordercases are considered while |
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> the general approach (range), that would cover all, is missing. Is |
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> that rather for performance or for historical reasons? |
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> Al |
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Neither. |
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It's because one frequently wants to see the start or end of a file and much |
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less seldom something in the middle. When that is what you want, there are all |
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manner of other tools to find the bit you want, then display surrounding text. |
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grep -{ABC} is the usual tool for that |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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