Reading from text

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.140.1234896250.11746.python-list at python.org>,
Tim Chase  <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>> Assuming this is a real task and not a homework problem, then
>> I'd do it this way:
>> 
>>   $ cd [directory containing 50 test files]
>>   $ (for file in *; do head -n11 $file | tail -n5; done) >/path/to/results-file.txt
>
>I'd use sed:
>
>   sed -ns 7,11p /source/path/*.txt >/path/to/results.txt
>
>hard to get much more concise than that with any common tool :)

But you do have to learn sed.  Avoiding that is precisely why I stick
with Python.
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