text range linux code example

Example 1: bash print specific range of rows from a file

# Basic syntax with sed:
sed -n 'start,endp' input_file.txt
# Where start and end are numbers that inclusively define the range. E.g.
sed -n '17,23p' input_file.txt # To print the [17-23] rows

Example 2: sed range of lines result

ip address | sed -n '2, 4p'