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Kamran Hussain_1
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‎03-27-2003 06:59 AM

‎03-27-2003 06:59 AM

write first 100 lines to a new file

How do I take the first 100 lines of file A and write it to file B ?
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Stefan Farrelly
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‎03-27-2003 07:01 AM

‎03-27-2003 07:01 AM

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Re: write first 100 lines to a new file

head -100 >
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Francois Bariselle_3
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‎03-27-2003 07:03 AM

‎03-27-2003 07:03 AM

Re: write first 100 lines to a new file

Hi,

You can use this command:

head -n 1000 'your file' > 'output'

Frank.
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James R. Ferguson
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‎03-27-2003 07:05 AM

‎03-27-2003 07:05 AM

Re: write first 100 lines to a new file

Hi:

How about:

# sed -n '1,100p' filename > filename.new

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...JRF...
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