I think a simpler solution would be to use head and tail:
head -n x > file.txt
tail -n x-n file.txt > file2.txt
Xavier Noria wrote:
On Apr 10, 2008, at 18:24 , Jonathan Mast wrote:
Hi, I have a ~125MB file of which I want to read lines n thru n+x and
write
those into a separate file. What is the best way to go about this?
Tie::File
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