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noah on 07/15/08


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Dump a file to the terminal, starting at some line number

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tail -n+99 foo.txt will read everything from foo.txt, starting with line 99. Pipe that into more and you just look at the few line(s) you really need.

To narrow this so it only prints the interesting lines (and not everything after those lines), see the nice solutions from deepsoul, below.

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Posted By: deepsoul on August 15, 2009

Regarding the todo: is this what you mean:

tail -n+99 foo.txt | head -20 | more

Or perhaps:

sed -n 99,118p foo.txt | more

Both print lines 99 to 118.

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