---
name: "between-two-genes"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ncbi-entrez-direct"
version: "24.0.20250523+dfsg-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/between-two-genes"
---

# between-two-genes(1)

select a range of tab-delimited lines

## NAME

between-two-genes - select a range of tab-delimited lines

## SYNOPSIS

**between-two-genes** *key1* *key2*

## DESCRIPTION

**between-two-genes** reads a tab-delimited file (as produced by [**xtract**(1)](/xtract/1.md), perhaps) on standard input and writes to standard output a consecutive subset of its lines, from the (first) line whose first field is *key1* up to (but **not** including) the next line whose first field is *key2*. Both keys are expected to be alphanumeric (gene symbols or the like); using other characters can yield undefined behavior.

## SEE ALSO

[**reorder-columns**(1)](/reorder-columns/1.md), [**xtract**(1)](/xtract/1.md).