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From: kenny@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: wanted: utility to extract lines by
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Date: 7 Apr 88 21:08:00 GMT
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/* Written 11:07 am  Apr  6, 1988 by uejio@lll-lcc.aRpA in uiucdcsb:comp.unix.questions */
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Does anyone know of a utility which will extract the nth line of a
file?
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head -n file | tail +m

will isolate lines m-n from file.

Example:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
% cat foo
this
is
a
test
of
extracting
lines
% head -4 foo | tail +3
a
test
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Kevin