[ILUG] Large SQL File

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Wed Jul 7 13:31:39 IST 2004


On Wednesday 7 July 2004, sweetr at eircom.net (Robert Sweetnam) wrote:

>> sed -n '10,50p' <infile >outfile
>>
>> will dump lines 10-50.  (If you leave out the -n, you'll see why I left it
>> in :-)
>>
>> Stitching the results back together is left as an exercise...
>>
>> Ronan
>
>Thats brilliant, Ronan, Thanks a million. Keep an eye out for my post on how 
>to stitch them back together :)
>How could I remove those lines altogether from the original file?

sed -n '1,10p;20,100p"  <infile >outfile

will copy lines 1-10 and 20-100 from infile to outfile - adjust as necessary
for your file.



Niall



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