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if you are talking about linenumber $. is for you:
perl -ne 'print if ($. >= 10 and $. <=20 )' filename.ext

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Re^2: Reading specific lines in a file
by gurpreetsingh13 (Scribe) on May 20, 2014 at 08:47 UTC
    That's right. Tried it already using $.
    Just wanted to do something via a list context as a one-liner.
    Learning purpose you can say. Anyway, thanks a lot.
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