On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:06 -0400, Peter Teuben wrote:
> you could explicitly code it via awk (i'm sure perl has a shortcut for this
> too, but it's not in my head):
>
> awk '{if (NR>=453555 && NR<= 453590) print $0 }' your_big_file
>
> it might be a bit slow on big files though.
> tail can also be used , but you have to do math:
>
> tail +453555 your_big_file | tail -45
>
> give or take a line. awk is probably safer, since you don't have to think about
> 0 vs. 1 and subtract two big numbers
>
Exactly, and your math is wrong.
If you want to see lines 454555 to 453590 inclusive you would need to
see 46 lines, thus "tail -46". Your command above would show lines
453555 to 453589 and not the last one.
The other suggestion to use sed would be the cleanest that I have seen
so far.
> On Mon, 8 May 2006 carlosreimer@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > How can I see the content of lines 453555 to 453590 of a big text file?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
>
