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Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Monday 08 May 2006 09:06, 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
>
> I may not know anything about perl or awk, but I am certain that
> subtracting 453555 from 433590 gives 35, not 45.
Really?
$ echo 433590 - 453555 | bc
- -19965
Damn typos. They must be programmed to show up more often in
sentences that contain words like positive and certain. ;-)
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