Would it not rather be as follows? cat file | head -n 96 | tail -n 34
I.e., 96 - (63 - 1) = 34 if you want to include line 63. Kind regards, Helmut Walle. On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Gareth Williams wrote: > You could cat file | head -n 96 | tail -n 33 :) > > On Saturday 25 October 2003 14:04, Vik Olliver wrote: > > I can't figure out what command-line utility I used to output lines 63 > > to 96 of a text file last time. OK, I can write it in sed/awk/perl in no > > time flat, but isn't there a command to do this? Could've sworn there > > was. ... +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 03 - 388 39 54 | +----------------+