HowTo/GetSpecificLinesOfTextFiles

You may ask yourself "Ok,i know 'tail' and 'head' to show beginning and end of a textfile, but how to get certain lines out of the middle?"

The answer: combine them with a "pipe" like this

Examples:

Line 1:    head -1 text.txt Line 2:    head -2 text.txt | tail -1 Line 4:    head -4 text.txt | tail -1 Line 3 & 4: head -4 text.txt | tail -2

Line 5 to 7: head -7 test.txt | tail -3

Line 4 to 10: head -10 test.txt | tail -7

etc ...

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NAME head - output the first part of files

SYNOPSIS head [OPTION]... [FILE]...

-n, --lines=[-]N print the  first  N  lines instead of the first 10; with the leading `-', print all but the last N lines of each file

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NAME tail - output the last part of files

SYNOPSIS tail [OPTION]... [FILE]...

-n, --lines=N output the last N lines, instead of the last 10

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