I would do this in awk. I could specify the line numbers. Or I could use the editor option to pass selection through said awk script. Or I could pipe xclip to a

I would do this in awk. I could specify the line numbers. Or I could use the editor option to pass selection through said awk script. Or I could pipe xclip to and from the script. Someone else could do it with sed, but I prefer awk.