Re: Best way to grab lines n thru x of a file

Chas. Owens wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Jonathan Mast
> <jhmast.developer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Hi, I have a ~125MB file of which I want to read lines n thru n+x and
write
>>  those into a separate file.  What is the best way to go about this?
> 
> Use the flip-flop operator* (..):
> 
> perl -ne 'print if $. == 20 .. $. == 50' file

Which could be written simply as:

perl -ne 'print if 20 .. 50' file


John
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