[unix] How can I extract a predetermined range of lines from a text file on Unix?

cat dump.txt | head -16224 | tail -258

should do the trick. The downside of this approach is that you need to do the arithmetic to determine the argument for tail and to account for whether you want the 'between' to include the ending line or not.

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