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Created February 14, 2012 14:48
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using sed on zipped files
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zcat_sed.sh
# Output lines 100 and 101 from a large gzipped file.
# '102q' causes sed to exit immediately upon line 102 which prevents
# zcat from continuing to cat the file after the lines we want.
zcat large_file.gz | sed -n '102q;100,101p'
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