Extract lines from a file with sed

note, Feb 15, 2024, on Mitja Felicijan's blog

Easy way to extract line ranges (from line 200 to line 210) with sed.

sed -n '200,210p' data/Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.dna.chromosome.18.fa

# then pipe it to a new file with

sed -n '200,210p' data/Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.dna.chromosome.18.fa > new.fa

head or tail could be used to extract from begining of the end of the file.



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