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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers copy and paste certain many lines of huge file in linux Post 302343542 by ariesto on Wednesday 12th of August 2009 09:08:59 PM
Old 08-12-2009
copy and paste certain many lines of huge file in linux

Dear All,

I am working with windoes OS but remote a linux machine. I wonder the way to copy an paste some part of a huge file in linux machine.

the contain of file like as follow:

...
dump annealling all custom 10 anneal_*.dat id type x y z q

timestep 0.02
run 200000
Memory usage per processor = 3.00831 Mbytes
Step PotEng TotEng Temp Press
0 -131593.2 -131593.2 0 -366874.47
1 -131593.21 -130252.7 300.0085 -364406.93
2 -131600.16 -130259.62 300.017 -358658.77
3 -131607.06 -130266.48 300.0255 -352910.17
4 -131613.76 -130273.14 300.034 -347161.71
5 -131620.4 -130279.74 300.0425 -341413.54

undump annealing
6 -131626.83 -130286.13 300.051 -335666.21
7 -131633.21 -130292.48 300.0595 -329919.85
8 -131639.43 -130298.66 300.068 -324175
9 -131645.52 -130304.7 300.0765 -318431.95
10 -131651.44 -130310.59 300.085 -312691.1
...

I want to copy and paste data from 1 to 5( between senteces "step ..." and "undump unnealing".
Of course its easy by using clicking mouse right in case it is only 5 lines. But what I want to do is copy and paste more than 10.000 lines.

I highly appreciate any help from you
thank you in advance
 

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TERM(7) 						 Miscellaneous Information Manual						   TERM(7)

NAME
terminals- conventional names DESCRIPTION
These names are used by certain commands and are maintained as part of the shell environment (see sh(1),environ(5)). 1620 DIABLO 1620 (and others using HyType II) 1620-12 same, in 12-pitch mode 300 DASI/DTC/GSI 300 (and others using HyType I) 300-12 same, in 12-pitch mode 300s DASI/DTC 300/S 300s-12 same, in 12-pitch mode 33 TELETYPE(R) Model 33 37 TELETYPE Model 37 40-2 TELETYPE Model 40/2 43 TELETYPE Model 43 450 DASI 450 (same as Diablo 1620) 450-12 same, in 12-pitch mode 450-12-8 same, in 12-pitch, 8 lines/inch mode 735 Texas Instruments TI735 (and TI725) 745 Texas Instruments TI745 dumb terminals with no special features hp Hewlett-Packard HP264? series terminals 4014 Tektronix 4014 tn1200 General Electric TermiNet 1200 tn300 General Electric TermiNet 300 vt05 Digital Equipment Corp. VT05 Commands whose behavior may depend on the terminal accept arguments of the form -Tterm, where term is one of the names given above. If no such argument is present, a command may consult the shell environment for the terminal type. SEE ALSO
stty(1), tabs(1), plot(1), sh(1), environ(5) troff(1) for nroff BUGS
The programs that ought to adhere to this nomenclature do so only fitfully. TERM(7)
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