Well, mine doesn't, for sure. Transcript: 

qwurx [shmem] ~> perl -le 'print "line $_" for 1..15' >| linenumber.tx
+t
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/T
+rig-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 edito
+r

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Show evidence of yours.

In defence of my oh-so-cool perl snippet -

And that's pretty much all about that. If I were better at typing, two of them three arguments would be quite pointless ;-)

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

In reply to Re^4: extract (a range of) numbered lines from a file by shmem
in thread extract (a range of) numbered lines from a file by shmem

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