[SOLVED] tail command syntax to print a sequence of line

rhadmn · 12-21-2010, 12:26 AM

How to print a sequence of line say line number 10 to 20 of a 50 line file ?

Manjunath1847 · 12-21-2010, 12:34 AM

as far as I know, tail is used to print last part of the files. Try head command.

rhadmn · 12-21-2010, 12:35 AM

With a combination of tail and head can we do it ?

Manjunath1847 · 12-21-2010, 01:01 AM

ya something like that.

tail -n4 main.cpp | head -n2

In this example I am trying to print last 4 lines of the files and output is fed to head which prints the first 2 lines of tail output

rhadmn · 12-21-2010, 01:28 AM

That Worked !!

Thanks a lot

dharanivasan · 12-22-2010, 05:40 AM

You can do using

head -20 test.txt | tail -10

mIXpRo · 12-22-2010, 06:02 AM

or if it's a variable :

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echo $variable | head -20 | tail -10