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From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RTFM... (really: sed -n 100,115p)
Message-ID: <1031@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 14:32:57 GMT
References: <2859@buengc.BU.EDU> <611213677.29680@ontmoh.UUCP>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
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In article <611213677.29680@ontmoh.UUCP> peter@ontmoh.UUCP (Peter Renzland) writes:
|bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
|
|> ...
|> 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

Make that

   sed -n -e 110,115p -e 115q

and you even avoid reading the rest of the file.

    Leo.