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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting print lines between line number Post 302545962 by zaxxon on Wednesday 10th of August 2011 05:20:24 AM
Old 08-10-2011
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Code:
$> cat infile
eins A
zwei B
drei C
vier D
fuenf E
sechs F
sieben G
acht H
neun I
zehn J
$> read A; read B; echo '-----------'; sed -n "${A},${B}p" infile
3
7
-----------
drei C
vier D
fuenf E
sechs F
sieben G

 

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wc

WC(1)									FSF								     WC(1)

NAME

       wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files

SYNOPSIS

       wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Print  byte, word, and newline counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified.  With no FILE, or when FILE is -,
       read standard input.

       -c, --bytes
	      print the byte counts

       -m, --chars
	      print the character counts

       -l, --lines
	      print the newline counts

       -L, --max-line-length
	      print the length of the longest line

       -w, --words
	      print the word counts

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by Paul Rubin and 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 wc is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and wc programs are properly installed at your site, the com-
       mand

	      info wc

       should give you access to the complete manual.

wc (coreutils) 4.5.3						   February 2003							     WC(1)
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