I'm looking for a command to get text around a specific line of a file.
ex: file content:
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
a command like: ]$ commandname -text f -lines 3 giving the output
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
Assuming you're running a *nix:
grep -C 3 f filename
If you want x lines before f and y lines after:
grep -A y -B x f filename