[ILUG] grepping file contents

[PhilipQuinlan]

It'll take a while but,
head -16204487 mailbox-name|tail -17653 > middle_bit.txt
will do the job for you.
Walter Faleiro wrote:
> Hi,
> Currently I am stuck with a mailbox of 950M. I need to yank lines from 
> the
> line number 16186834 to 16204487.
>
> My problem is the sytem takes eternity to open the file, lest allow
> operations owing to its size.
>
> Can I use a command that will "cut" lines from 16186834 to 16204487 and
> redirect the output to another file?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --Walter