>> 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.
>

Thank you. Nice solutions and they reveal that there is no "belly"
like program in coreutils.

I find it interesting, that the two bordercases are considered while
the general approach (range), that would cover all, is missing. Is
that rather for performance or for historical reasons?

Al

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