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From: dwn@swbatl.UUCP (4007)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RTFM... I wish... (Re: appolgies "obviously")
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Date: 14 May 89 20:25:47 GMT
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Reply-To: dwn@swbatl.UUCP (David Neill - OKCy Mktg 405-278-4007)
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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...
>
>What is the proper one-liner syntax for that?
>
sed -n '110,115p' file

It's the "-n" option that tells sed to print nothing but lines
explicitly selected, or as TFM says, "The -n option suppresses the
default output."
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