$ cat rubbish
Line1
Line2
Line3
Line4
Line5
Line6
Line7
Line8
Line9
Line10
Line11
Line12

$ perl -ne 'print if 2 .. 7;' rubbish 
Line2
Line3
Line4
Line5
Line6
Line7
$

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# time perl -ne 'print if 5 .. 10' maillog
Nov 11 04:19:28 ...
Nov 11 04:19:28 ...
Nov 11 04:19:28 ...
Nov 11 04:19:28 ...
Nov 11 04:19:28 ...

real    0m1.206s
user    0m0.773s
sys     0m0.432s
# time perl -ne 'print if 5 .. 10; last if $. > 10' maillog
Nov 11 04:19:28 ...
Nov 11 04:19:28 ...
Nov 11 04:19:28 ...
Nov 11 04:19:28 ...
Nov 11 04:19:28 ...

real    0m0.013s
user    0m0.006s
sys     0m0.008s
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