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+title: "Extract lines from a file with sed"
+url: /extract-lines-from-file-with-sed.html
+date: 2024-02-15T10:04:28+02:00
+type: note
+draft: false
+---
+
+Easy way to extract line ranges (from line 200 to line 210) with sed.
+
+```sh
+sed -n '200,210p' data/Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.dna.chromosome.18.fa
+
+# then pipe it to a new file with
+
+sed -n '200,210p' data/Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.dna.chromosome.18.fa > new.fa
+```
+
+`head` or `tail` could be used to extract from begining of the end of the file.