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What is the best way to output from a file starting from a specific line (big number like 70000). Something like:

cat --line=70000 <file>
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Take a look at tail, more precisecly, it's --lines=+N switch:

tail --lines=+100 <file>
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Wow. I didn't know this even after using this on linux for 8 years ! I always used a bash fn ! Thanks ! getFromLine () { lineno=wc -l $1 | awk '{print $1}' ; lineno=expr $lineno - $2 ; tail -n $lineno $1 ; } – secureBadshah Oct 30 '09 at 8:53
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The most obvious way is tail, the syntax might be slightly different depending on what OS you are using:

tail -n +70000

If you can not get tail to work, you could use sed, but it might end up slower.

sed -pe '1,69999d'
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tail +250

more about unix cat command

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fascinating link, but it doesn't really give any information that applies to this question, and your tail suggestion is the same as the accepted and other answers from weeks ago. why bother to post? – quack quixote Nov 18 '09 at 5:48
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