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Bash - Print lines from large file
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README.md

Allows printing a large file by giving a line range

Helpfull when you have a large file that can't be loaded into a text editor but you want to inspect it

Usage

./print_lines.sh FILE START_LINE END_LINE
./print_lines.sh ./some-large-file.xml 1000 2000
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print_lines.sh
END_LINE=$3
START_LINE=$2
NUM_LINES=$(($END_LINE - $START_LINE))
HEAD_LINE=$(($START_LINE + $NUM_LINES))
echo "LINES $START_LINE-$END_LINE"
head -n $HEAD_LINE "$1" | tail -n $NUM_LINES
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