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Old 08-27-2007
jojan jojan is offline
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reas a file partially line by line

I need to read a file fron nth to n+m line by line using bash

ie
while read line
do
# soem stuff
done <<file

But The file is so big I am only intersted in reading ceratin portion of the file ie from nth line to mth line where m is alwasy greatr than n