Cutting lines from a file ...

[grega]

I cannot for the life of me remember how to do this ... as an example I have a 10 line file, and I want to cut out lines 4-7 into another file (by "cut out" I mean I just need a copy of them, not remove them from the original file)

Is there a command for this? cut seems to suggest it is possible if you don't supply a switch, but my version expects a switch (-b, -n or -f) ... Solaris 2.5.1.

Greg.

 

[boebox]

Greg,

Try this:

sed -n '4,7p' file > newfile

this will print lines 4 to 7, works in /bin/sh

Tony