I wrote a shell script access a very big text file which happens to read the file line by line. When i use the command "head -$LINE_NO | tail -1" to retrieve a particular line, the process becomes very slow when accessing a big file that contains 11,000 lines. Is any other solution for it. TIA Moorthy On Wed, 07 Nov 2001 Shridhar Daithankar wrote : > > > USM Bish wrote: > > > The same is extrapolated for a specific number of > lines from > > a specific starting point. e.g. For extracting 3 > lines from > > lines 15 to 18 in textfile.txt, it would be: > > > > $head -18 textfile.txt | tail -3 > > > Howabout writing a shell script for that? > > #!/bin/bash > head -$2 $1 | tail -$3 > > Call this script say lines.sh. > > Actually I think aliases is the better application but > never tried arguments in > aliases. So suggesting the script. > > Shridhar > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india- > -help
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