in reply to Re: write exact lines of file
in thread write exact lines of file
From the very first perl golf tournament:
perl -pe '11..exit'
(11 for 10,6 for 5, etc)
Attributable to many.
And of course, this does the exact opposite of what the OP wanted! Teach me to read the question!
edit: forgot -e switch, added caveat (thanks jmcnamara)