Re: add --skip to head and tail

[Dan Jacobson]

Paul> These proposed options would be of limited utility, since you can
Paul> already do that in another way.  "tail --skip=5 -n 10" would be
Paul> equivalent to "tail -n 15 | head -n 10", and "head --skip=5 -n 10"
Paul> would be equivalent to "tail -n +6 | head -n 10".

mainly I was attempting ways at reading parts of the file without
reading other parts (that caused disk read errors), without resorting
to dd(1), or C tools.

BTW, your tail -n +6 | head -n 10 would be a drag on a pipe, but one
could use sed '10q;1,5d' but still we would get our disk errors.