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08-23-2005

blowtorch

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You could use sed. I believe the syntax is as follows:

Code:

sed -n '20,40p' file_name

For files in a directory:

Code:

cd directory_where_files_are
for file_name in *; do
sed -n '20,40p' file_name
done