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From: raymund@sci.UUCP (Raymund Galvin)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: YASS (yet another shell script)
Message-ID: <153@sci.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 15:51:01 EST
Article-I.D.: sci.153
Posted: Sat Mar 15 15:51:01 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Mar-86 03:45:23 EST
References: <620@ssc-vax.UUCP>
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Organization: Silicon Compilers, Inc., San Jose, CA
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Summary: it can be done with an csh alias

In article <620@ssc-vax.UUCP>, aims@ssc-vax.UUCP (John Daley) writes:
> This is a 'simple' little shell script I whipped up, out of need, to
> print a specific line of a specific file.  Yes, I chose to use the B
> shell, but it gets the job done, right?.
> 
> Why am I posting such a meager little script?  This newsgroup hasn't
> been very active lately (excluding discussions).  Anybody out there
> got a better way to do what my script does?
        ^^^^^^

Better?  I dont know.  I dont have access to B shell. 

The following alias will print any single line from a text file:
	alias line 'awk NR==\!:1 \!:2-$'
Example: "line 10 .login" would print  the tenth line from .login


The following alias will print a range of lines from a text file:
	alias list 'awk NR==\!:1,NR==\!:2\{print\ NR\":\"\$0\} \!:3-$'
Example: "list 9 11 .login"  would print lines  9 - 11  from .login