Wayne Hayes wrote:

> SYNOPSIS:
>     every [-M[,N]] [OPTIONS] [list-of-files]
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>     Print N lines out of every M lines in a file.  If no files are
>     listed, use the standard input.  N and M both default to 1, so that
>     every(1) without options acts like cat(1).  Every(1) can also work
>     on bytes or blocks instead of lines.

Can't you pretty much achieve the same thing with:

awk '(FNR-1) % M < N' file

Brian


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