qwurx [shmem] ~> perl -le 'print "line $_" for 1..15' >| linenumber.txt qwurx [shmem] ~> sed -ne '10,15p;5p' linenumber.txt line 5 line 10 line 11 line 12 line 13 line 14 line 15 qwurx [shmem] ~> which sed /bin/sed qwurx [shmem] ~> dpkg -S `which sed` sed: /bin/sed qwurx [shmem] ~> dpkg -l sed Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===============-============-============-==================================== ii sed 4.2.2-4+b1 amd64 The GNU sed stream editor