Bug#810576: ITP: hail -- Efficiently extract arbitrary lines from a file or stream

[Afif Elghraoui <afif.elghraoui@openmailbox.org>]

Hi, Kevin,

على السبت  9 كانون الثاني 2016 ‫15:17، كتب Kevin Murray:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Kevin Murray <spam@kdmurray.id.au>
> 
> * Package name    : hail
>   Version         : 0.1.1
>   Upstream Author : Kevin Murray
> * URL             : https://github.com/kdmurray91/hail
> * License         : GPL
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : Efficiently extract arbitrary lines from a file or stream
> 
> Hail gets its name from a contraction of head and tail, the common alternative
> to this program. It extracts lines from a file, taken on stdin, and prints them
> on stdout. It's so simple that the Unix wizards of old never bothered.
> 

You might like to try getting this program into moreutils [1].


> Hail will be co-maintained in the Debian Med team.
> 

1. https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

regards
Afif