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Old 06-12-2014
Cut lines from and to in a textfile
i am having a text file like below


Code:
rama
surya
pandu
latha
singh
raja

i want to get the new file from 3 to 5

i.e
Code:
pandu
latha
singh


please help
Last edited by Don Cragun; 06-12-2014 at 06:37 AM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
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Old 06-12-2014
Code:
$ awk 'FNR>=3 && FNR<=5' infile > outfile

Code:
$ sed -n '3,5p' infile > outfile

Code:
$ head -n 5 infile | tail -n 3 >outfile

---------- Post updated at 02:11 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:03 PM ----------

Code:
$ perl -ne 'print if 3..5' infile >outfile

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