Steve Shelby wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there an easier way to do this? I have about 9,000 lines, one of several
> mesh2 objects, in a pov file, that I want to select in order to copy and
> paste to another pov file, which also contains several mesh2 objects. The
> only would I know to do this is to start selecting and scroll, and scroll,
> and scroll.......and scroll until an eternity later I finally have the whole
> thing selected. It seems like one ought to be able to tell Povray to "select
> from line 8605 to line 17361" and it would be done, but I can't find any way
> to do that, nor can I find anything in the documentation about it. Am I
> stuck doing it the hard way?
> Steve Shelby
> 
> 

cat mesh2.pov | head -n 17361 | tail -n `expr 17361 - 8605`

;-)

Christoph

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