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Old 11-20-2008
bezudar bezudar is offline
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Can i use Variables in sed command in line numbers
I wish to give line number from one point to another in sed command like this
sed -n 1,1000000p file1.txt >file2.txt
but variable line number $x,$x+100000 can i give it cos i tried and it was giving an error any suggestions?/
Thx in advance
AC