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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Al <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I am looking for a program similar to head or tail. It should display |
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> a given range of lines or take a line and a context number like grep. |
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> Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. |
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sed -n 5,8p filename |
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where 5 is first line in the range and 8 is the last line. |
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If you want to view multiple ranges use the same X,Yp syntax but |
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preceed each with -e. For example |
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sed -n -e 5,8p -e 12,17p filename |
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