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Old 06-24-2010
Cut text from a file
How can I cut the text of definite length say from line no. 20 to 1000?

It is trivial ques, but I am very new to Unix.

Thanks Smilie
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Old 06-24-2010
Not knowing the version of UNIX you are using, try this:

Code:
head -1000 | tail -980l

HTH
# 3  
Old 06-24-2010
Look into sed1liners.
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Old 06-24-2010
Code:
awk 'NR>19 && NR<1001' file

 
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