body is a small bash script that replaces a common two-shot command that I find myself running from time to time: head -n5000 file.txt | tail -n1. Basically, I want to view approximately the middle of a file, to see the middle contents. I realized that there must be a better way, and that’s why I made a small script that does what I want: it’s not head, it’s not tail, it’s body: for when you want to print (around) the middle of a file.
