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Old 11-20-2008
elbrand elbrand is offline
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Can i use Variables in sed command in line numbers
why not calculate the line numbers outside of the sed-script?

#! /bin/bash
typeset -i A=1 B=A+5
sed -n "${A},${B} p" file.txt