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Old 04-21-2009
lassimanji lassimanji is offline
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problems using sed

i have a file acc.sh which has about 10 lines and then i have defined $var which has a line number in it (say 5). i want to extarct from line 5 to the end of the file and put the output into another file. I have used
sed -n $var,'$p' acc.sh | tee abc.sh
but at times it does'nt work and gives an error like
sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: `,'
can you help me with this.
thanks