Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you plan to have a means of specifying a number of lines? E.g.: > > $ seq 10 | linecut --range 5,+3 > 5 > 6 > 7
I like the idea. And it should be rather easy to calculate the ending line position. I hope the distinction between the '-' & '+' "prefixes" would be clear enough. > @Jim, 'addr1,addr2' syntax belongs to sed, so I would argue it isn't > "new". It's also easier to type when specifying only one range :-). Well, I initially started writing linecut with sed in mind, but I could agree to either format. > Btw, how do you match 5 through end? '5,-0'? Yes. > What does a reversed range (e.g. '5,2') match? That shouldn't be allowed. Or should it? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
