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Asked: May 18, 20262026-05-18T05:15:19+00:00 2026-05-18T05:15:19+00:00

I want to extract rows 1 to n from my .csv file. Using this

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I want to extract rows 1 to n from my .csv file. Using this

perl -ne 'if ($. == 3) {print;exit}' infile.txt 

I can extract only one row. How to put a range of rows into this script?

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    2026-05-18T05:15:20+00:00Added an answer on May 18, 2026 at 5:15 am

    What’s wrong with:

    head -3 infile.txt
    

    If you really must use Perl then this works:

    perl -ne 'if ($. <= 3) {print} else {exit}' infile.txt 
    
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