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# 1  
Old 06-29-2006
How to extract a sequence of n lines from a file

Hi

I want to be able to extract a sequence of n lines from a file.

ideas, commands and suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 06-29-2006
How about telling us what the critera are?
# 3  
Old 06-29-2006
I have only 1 option.

1. extracting n number of lines starting from line m.
# 4  
Old 06-30-2006
is this your req?

sed -n 'm,np' <file>

ex:

sed -n '12,5p' input

if so, it had been answered many times in the forum
# 5  
Old 06-30-2006
Thanks

Couldn't find that.
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