Grep help, or at least I think it is? 1

[jewel464g]

I have a file that is 605MB. I need to get the information that starts on line 11508585 and goes through line 11510676. I used grep to match the time pattern and then find the line numbers but I need everything between those 2 line numbers. Anybody have an idea what I can do to get them? I'm relatively new to Linux so please be patient

Jewel

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[patrckb]

Jewel,

What you want to use is csplit.

I've used it many times to do exactly what you want to do. It's a very handy utility. Read the man page, it'll explain how to do the options.

Patrick

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[tarn]

Ok so you have that 605MB file and you want to display only lines 11508585 through to 11510676 (inclusive) why not use awk?

awk 'NR==11508585, NR==11510676{print NR $0}' your_file.txt

To explain:
awk sees a file as a set of records with a end of line marker as the end of each record.

awk '{print NR $0}' ......

This prints out each line with the record number at teh start of each line.

awk NR==number, NR==number{prin.....
starts the output from line number through to line number

Try it see what you get .... just remove the NR after the print part once you trust the output to see a clean set of records

Good Luck
Laurie.