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Re: [RFC] linecut addition
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
Re: [RFC] linecut addition |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:04:57 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061116) |
Steven Schubiger wrote:
> I've written a small utility that does easily extract line slices. It has
> currently one convenience switch "-n", which triggers numbered output.
>
> Sample invocations:
>
> $ linecut --range 1,10:50,80:-200,-1 --number <file>
> $ linecut --range 10,-10 --number <file>
> $ linecut --range 15,15:18,18 --number <file>
I think this (rarely used) functionality is
adequately provided by existing tools:
cat -n | sed -n '1,10p;50,80p;80q'
thanks,
Pádraig.