Printing text between line numbers or patterns

We may need to print a selected portion of a file, either a range of line numbers or a range matched by a start and end pattern.

Getting ready

Awk, grep, or sed will select lines to print, based on condition. It's simplest to use grep to print lines that include a pattern. Awk is the most versatile tool.

How to do it...

To print the text between line numbers or patterns, follow these steps:

1. Print the lines of a text in a range of line numbers, M to N:

        $ awk 'NR==M, NR==N' filename

 Awk can read from stdin:

        $ cat filename | awk &apos...