From: Ken Wolcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to
> display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p
> filename)?
Whatever you like. I doubt you'll find anything.
> s2p no longer operates the way I used to use it back in perl 3x days
> :-)
>
> man s2p really didn't help me understand what perl syntax would give
> me the desired result that sed does :-(
I don't think there is any special syntax for this. Nor do I think
there should be.
If you want to be cool you may use something like this, but I'd
rather not.
perl -p -e "$_ = '' unless $. == 24 .. $. == 48"
perl -p -e "$_ = '' unless $. >= 24;exit if $. >= 48"
Jenda
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