[ILUG] grepping file contents

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:36:29 +0530
  | From: "Walter Faleiro" <curtorkar at gmail.com>
  | 
  | Currently I am stuck with a mailbox of 950M.  I need to yank
  | lines from the line number 16186834 to 16204487.  [ ... ]
  | Can I use a command that will "cut" lines from 16186834 to
  | 16204487 and redirect the output to another file?

 sed -n -e 16186834,16204487p

  should do it;  and to be a shade faster
  (esp. if the last line, 16204487, is not
  "close" to the end)

 sed -n -e 16186834,16204487p -e 16204487q

cheers!
	-blf-
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