You could also combine sed and awk (TIMTOWTDI applies):

sed -e '10,15p;4p;s/.*//' file | awk '!/^$/{print $0}' somefile

TIMTOWTDI indeed. For starters, this has a small bug/typo which is the omission of the > before "somefile". If you put that it in then it will work but the syntax is rather unweildy. We can simplify it on the awk side by using the /./ construct:

sed -e '10,15p;4p;s/.*//' file | awk /./ > somefile

But if that's all you are using awk to do, you may as well just grep.

sed -e '10,15p;4p;s/.*//' file | grep . > somefile

Instead, here's an awk expression of the full task:

awk '(NR >= 10 && NR <= 15); NR == 4' file > somefile

No doubt a sedhead could rattle off the pure sed version but I'm a bit rusty in that department.

In reply to Re: extract (a range of) numbered lines from a file (awk) by hippo
in thread extract (a range of) numbered lines from a file by shmem

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