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Allow --line-range to count from the back of the file to act similar to "tail" #2944

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PlasmaHH opened this issue Apr 23, 2024 · 0 comments
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For python users it would probably best if -r acts somewhat like the python syntax...

So for negative numbers it could count from backwards, so "tail -n 5" would be "bat -r -5:" or so and then one could display the first and last portion of a file like "bat -r :5 -r -5:"

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