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andrea@amanda{~/scripts}: extract
usage: extract start=<rec1> end=<rec2> [<file>]
example: extract start=3 end=22 car0919b.cgn
will print records 3 through 22 from file car0919b.cgn to stdout
example: cat reclist | sort | extract start=2 > reclist.new
will print records 2 through EOF from stdin (reclist) to reclist.new
andrea@amanda{~/scripts}: extract start=3 end=8 datafile
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