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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting grab the line using awk Post 302139985 by blowtorch on Wednesday 10th of October 2007 08:21:29 AM
Old 10-10-2007
Er, when you say lines, does that mean that it is actually seperated by '\n'? Or is this all on one line? If it is all on one line, use this:
Code:
awk '{print substr($0,100,200)}' file

For seperate lines, use sed:
Code:
sed -n '100,300p' file

 

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