[southwindcg]

Regarding the `line` script, just a note that sed can print an arbitrary line from a file, no need to invoke a pipeline of cat, head, and tail:

    sed -n 2p file

prints the second line of file. The advantage sed has over this line script is it can also print more than one line, should you need to:

    sed -n 2,4p file

prints lines 2 through 4, inclusive.

[tonmoy]

It is often useful to chain multiple sed commands and sometimes shuffle them around. In those cases I would need to keep changing the fist sed. Sometimes I need to grep before I sed. Using cat, tail and head makes things more modular in the long run I feel. It’s the ethos of each command doing one small thing

[1-more]

yeah I almost always start with `cat` but I still pipe it into `sed -n 1,4p`

[southwindcg]

True, everything depends on what one is trying to do at the time.

[mmsc]

If you'd like to print the middle of a file, try out `body`: https://github.com/megamansec/body