[2013-04-02 15:23] Sam Watkins <s...@nipl.net> > > I suggest to extend your program so it can also print a range of lines > (and thus subsume the functions of 'head' and 'tail' while doing more > and yet staying fairly focused). You could perhaps use negative numbers > to count back from the final line. It should be able to cut off 6 lines > from the end of a file, or print from lines 10 through to the 2nd-last line.
Please don't write this tool as it is already available: ed(1): echo '1,$-6p' | ed - "$1" echo '10,$--p' | ed - "$1" Better learn about software leverage! meillo
