1---
 2title: "Extract lines from a file with sed"
 3url: extract-lines-from-file-with-sed.html
 4date: 2024-02-15T10:04:28+02:00
 5type: note
 6draft: false
 7---
 8
 9Easy way to extract line ranges (from line 200 to line 210) with sed.
10
11```sh
12sed -n '200,210p' data/Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.dna.chromosome.18.fa
13
14# then pipe it to a new file with
15
16sed -n '200,210p' data/Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.dna.chromosome.18.fa > new.fa
17```
18
19`head` or `tail` could be used to extract from begining of the end of the file.