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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RTFM... I wish... (Re: appolgies "obviously")
Message-ID: <9356@alice.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 89 16:20:38 GMT
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In article <2859@buengc.BU.EDU>, bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:

> In that vein, I've R'ed TMFM, and I've twiddled the permutations, but
> I just can't seem to get sed(1) to print lines 110 through 115 of
> a file.  It seems the most basic of things, but sed(1) insists on
> printing the whole file, no matter what I do...

	sed -n 110,115p <file

Unless you say -n, sed prints every line.  That's because sed is
so often used to transform every line of a file the same way.
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com