a command to get the lines around a specific line of a text file

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Published on 2010-05-27T03:53:11Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 4:02 UTC
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I'm looking for a command to get text around a specific line of a file.

ex: file content:

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

a command like: ]$ commandname -text f -lines 3 giving the output

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

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