Line
Command line tool to print the lines from stdinput that are matched by the matchers
e.g. line 1 prints the first line
Usage: line [options] matchers
matchers:
2 matches the second line
-2 matches the second from the last line
^2 matches lines other than the second
1..10 matches lines 1 through 10 (the numbers can be negative)
^5..10 matches all lines before the fifth and all lines after the tenth
options:
-l, --line-numbers show line numbers in output
-s, --strip strip leading and tailing whitespace
-f, --force do not err when told to print a line number beyond the input
-c, --chomp no newlines between lines in the output
-h, --help this help screen
examples:
line 1 22 # prints lines 1 and 22
line -1 # prints the last line
line ^1 ^-1 # prints all lines but the first and the last
line 1..10 # prints lines 1 through 10
line 5..-5 # prints all lines except the first and last four
line ^5..10 # prins all lines except 5 through ten
line 5..10 ^6..8 # prints lines 5, 9, 10
line 5..10 ^7 # prints lines 5, 6, 8, 9
License
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Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2012 Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com>
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