unix help (using pipe head, tail, and grep)

[scan]

how would I pipe head, tail, and grep together to search for something from line 11-17 of a file?

 

[iMeowbot]

( head -17 | tail -7 | grep whatever ) < filespec

What do I win?

 

[superbovine]

( head -17 | tail -7 | grep whatever ) < filespec

What do I win?

an A on his homework....

 

[iMeowbot]

an A on his homework....

I'd give that a D for not checking that there are 17 lines in there

 

[superbovine]

I'd give that a D for not checking that there are 17 lines in there

since when does the overworked grad student care about error checking

 

[scan]

( head -17 | tail -7 | grep whatever ) < filespec

What do I win?

damn, i was so close. I just didn't redirect the file. thanks