How to cut a file on AIX

[Tison]

How do I cut a file in AIX ?
ie I want to split out lines 1000 to 1100 from a huge file (20000 lines).

 

[glynis]

Use the vi editor as follows :-
type
vi (filename) return
shift colon return
set number return
put in first line number to delete , last line number to delete space d
(e.g. 1000,200 d )
shift colon
wq (when you are happy you have deleted the correct lines)
if not happy use q! to disregard the changes.
NOTE copy the file somewhere before you do this just in case you screw up !!

 

[PSD]

Tison,

You have answered the question yourself, check out the split command :

man split

This will do what you require.

Cheers

PSD
HACMP Specialist

 

[ElgisRamon]

Or use AWK:
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awk 'NR >= 1000 && NR <= 1100' /name/of/file > /file/with/extracted/lines
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I hope it works...