Paul> These proposed options would be of limited utility, since you can Paul> already do that in another way. "tail --skip=5 -n 10" would be Paul> equivalent to "tail -n 15 | head -n 10", and "head --skip=5 -n 10" Paul> would be equivalent to "tail -n +6 | head -n 10".
mainly I was attempting ways at reading parts of the file without reading other parts (that caused disk read errors), without resorting to dd(1), or C tools. BTW, your tail -n +6 | head -n 10 would be a drag on a pipe, but one could use sed '10q;1,5d' but still we would get our disk errors. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
