Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Including only a part of an external source code

[Yann Dirson <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:57:01PM +0100, Joachim Ziegler wrote:
> cbbrowne@acm.org wrote:
> >When I was working on a book last year, writing using DocBook, I wound
> >up splitting the files into fragments, and having a Makefile manage
> 
> Thank you. That's a good idea.
> 
> In my case, it would suffice to only specify the line numbers from 
> (between) which source code should be extracted. Is this possible?

You could just use a combination of "head" and "tail" commands to
generate your fragments.  Something like:

file-18-24: file
	tail +18 $< | head -6 > $@

(untested, there may be one-off bugs in this code)

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