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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to read contents of a file from a given line number upto line number again specified by user Post 302436791 by grc on Tuesday 13th of July 2010 07:14:32 AM
Old 07-13-2010
Thank you..

I got it..

---------- Post updated at 04:44 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:42 PM ----------

Thank you people, I finally got the solution after all your help.

The code should be like this:

Code:
if [ $# -eq 3 ]; then
        if [ -e $3 ]; then
             sed -n "$1, ${2}p" "$3"
                # tail +$1 $3 | head -n $2
         else
            echo "$0: Error opening file $3"
            exit 2
        fi
else
        echo "Missing arguments!"
fi

It works.
I thank you all once again.

Regards
G Ravi Chandran
 

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head

HEAD(1) 								FSF								   HEAD(1)

NAME

       head - output the first part of files

SYNOPSIS

       head [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Print  first  10 lines of each FILE to standard output.	With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name.  With no
       FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -c, --bytes=SIZE
	      print first SIZE bytes

       -n, --lines=NUMBER
	      print first NUMBER lines instead of first 10

       -q, --quiet, --silent
	      never print headers giving file names

       -v, --verbose
	      always print headers giving file names

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       SIZE may have a multiplier suffix: b for 512, k for 1K, m for 1 Meg.

AUTHOR

       Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       The  full documentation for head is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and head programs are properly installed at your site, the
       command

	      info head

       should give you access to the complete manual.

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