$ seq 10 | sed -n '3,6p' 3 4 5 6
You can get one specific line during any procedure. Very interesting to be used when you know what line you want. Show Sample Output
This command uses awk(1) to print all lines between two known line numbers in a file. Useful for seeing output in a log file, where the line numbers are known. The above command will print all lines between, and including, lines 3 and 6.
This command uses awk(1) to print all lines between two known line numbers in a file. Useful for seeing output in a log file, where the line numbers are known. The above command will print all lines between, and including, lines 3 and 6.
Subtly different to the -n+p method... and probably wrong in so many ways....... But it's shorter. Just.
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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awk 'NR > 3 && NR < 6' /path/to/file
sed '1,3d;6Q' /path/to/file
Delete up to line 3; leave 4 and 5 intact; quit on line 6.sed -n '10,20p' <filename>
is issued on 2009-02-08 by ergut and honoured with 38 credits