-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. ;-) - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: When crypto is outlawed bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. iG0EARECAC0FAkRf7IomGGh0dHA6Ly93d3cucG9ib3guY29tL350bXovcGdwL3Rt ei5hc2MACgkQuv+09NZUB1pxzwCdFkDIDwGGMPxfsld93/L8U4Ib4ZMAn1hifg98 0gHxRDIN4Xs+jgEH8zlz =7JZN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list