YASS (yet another shell script)

[Raymund Galvin]

In article <620 at ssc-vax.UUCP>, aims at ssc-vax.UUCP (John Daley) writes:
> This is a 'simple' little shell script I whipped up, out of need, to
> print a specific line of a specific file.  Yes, I chose to use the B
> shell, but it gets the job done, right?.
> 
> Why am I posting such a meager little script?  This newsgroup hasn't
> been very active lately (excluding discussions).  Anybody out there
> got a better way to do what my script does?
        ^^^^^^

Better?  I dont know.  I dont have access to B shell. 

The following alias will print any single line from a text file:
	alias line 'awk NR==\!:1 \!:2-$'
Example: "line 10 .login" would print  the tenth line from .login


The following alias will print a range of lines from a text file:
	alias list 'awk NR==\!:1,NR==\!:2\{print\ NR\":\"\$0\} \!:3-$'
Example: "list 9 11 .login"  would print lines  9 - 11  from .login