Line

Command line tool to print the lines from stdinput that are matched by the matchers e.g. line 1 prints the first line

Usage: line [options] matchers

matchers:
  2      matches the second line
  -2     matches the second from the last line
  ^2     matches lines other than the second
  1..10  matches lines 1 through 10 (the numbers can be negative)
  ^5..10 matches all lines before the fifth and all lines after the tenth

options:
  -l, --line-numbers  show line numbers in output
  -s, --strip         strip leading and tailing whitespace
  -f, --force         do not err when told to print a line number beyond the input
  -c, --chomp         no newlines between lines in the output
  -h, --help          this help screen

examples:
  line 1 22         # prints lines 1 and 22
  line -1           # prints the last line
  line ^1 ^-1       # prints all lines but the first and the last
  line 1..10        # prints lines 1 through 10
  line 5..-5        # prints all lines except the first and last four
  line ^5..10       # prins all lines except 5 through ten
  line 5..10 ^6..8  # prints lines 5, 9, 10
  line 5..10 ^7     # prints lines 5, 6, 8, 9

License

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                   Version 2, December 2004

Copyright (C) 2012 Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com>

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