On Fri, 26 May 2006, Daniel Jarboe wrote:
> On 5/26/06, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>> If line 2000 et al should be the first line of the next segment (not the
>> last line of the previous one), you need
>>
>> sed '1,1999!d' original > result1
>> sed '2000,4999!d' original > result2
>> sed '5000,7999!d' original > result3
>> sed '8000,10000!d' original > result4
>
> Eben, you might be confusing the issue here. Paul's example was
> 2000,3000,3000,2000, not 1999,3000,3000,2001
Right, the proposition was N lines in seg [1-3], not that the Nth line
starts seg [2-4]. Never mind.
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