Command to print few consecutive lines from middle of a file

Question

For a file containing 20 lines, lines 6-10 can be printed using following command:

head -10 filename | tail -5

Can this exactly same thing be done without using 'head' and 'tail' commands ??

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Answer 1

sed would work well here

seq 20 | sed '6,10!d'

6
7
8
9
10

You could use this as well: sed -n '6,10p'

Or awk, awk '6 <= NR && NR <= 10'