Reading a subset of the lines in a text file, with bash

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Hi! I have a file

line a - this is line a
line b - this is line b
line c - this is line c
line d - this is line d
line e - this is line e

The question is: How can I output the lines starting from "line b" till "line d" using bash commands? I mean, to obtain:

"line b - this is line b
 line c - this is line c
 line d - this is line d"

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