On 22 sept. 2010, at 17:04, Maciej Grela wrote: > 2010/9/22 Al <oss.el...@googlemail.com>: >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for a program similar to head or tail. It should display >> a given range of lines or take a line and a context number like grep. >> >> Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. >> > > gr...@pazuzu ~ $ cat /etc/passwd | sed -n -e '4,10 p'
Best solution so far, but useless use of cat, and the subshell overhead of the pipe. ----- Florian. / For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted. /