Sam Watkins was just testing him, now you spoiled it, lol. On 4/2/13, markus schnalke <mei...@marmaro.de> wrote: > [2013-04-02 15:23] Sam Watkins <s...@nipl.net> >> >> I suggest to extend your program so it can also print a range of lines >> (and thus subsume the functions of 'head' and 'tail' while doing more >> and yet staying fairly focused). You could perhaps use negative numbers >> to count back from the final line. It should be able to cut off 6 lines >> from the end of a file, or print from lines 10 through to the 2nd-last >> line. > > Please don't write this tool as it is already available: ed(1): > > echo '1,$-6p' | ed - "$1" > echo '10,$--p' | ed - "$1" > > Better learn about software leverage! > > > meillo > >
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