Chas. Owens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Jonathan Mast
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I have a ~125MB file of which I want to read lines n thru n+x and write
those into a separate file. What is the best way to go about this?
Use the flip-flop operator* (..):
perl -ne 'print if $. == 20 .. $. == 50' file
Which could be written simply as:
perl -ne 'print if 20 .. 50' file
John
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