Cut lines from and to in a textfile

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

i am having a text file like below

rama
surya
pandu
latha
singh
raja

i want to get the new file from 3 to 5

i.e

pandu
latha
singh

please help

2 
$ awk 'FNR>=3 && FNR<=5' infile > outfile

$ sed -n '3,5p' infile > outfile

$ head -n 5 infile | tail -n 3 >outfile

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$ perl -ne 'print if 3..5' infile >outfile