How about this one
sed -n 27,39p <filename>
Bharathi Subramanian wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, carti wrote:
I would like to view specific lines (range given in command line) of
a file. Say for example, I want to view line numbers 27 to 39 of
file file.txt.
Use Head and Tail
$ head -n 39 file.txt | tail -n 12
39 - 27 = 12.
HTH :)