Are there other commands for this?

Yes, there are other commands that can help you view both lines and characters from a file. Here are a few options:

1. Using head and tail together: You can combine head and tail to first get a specific number of lines and then display a certain number of characters from those lines.

   head -n 10 filename | tail -c 100
   

   This command will first get the first 10 lines of the file and then display the last 100 characters from that output.

2. Using sed: You can use sed to extract specific lines and then pipe it to wc to count characters.

   sed -n '1,10p' filename | wc -c
   

   This command will print the first 10 lines and then count the number of characters in those lines.

3. Using awk: You can also use awk to achieve similar results by specifying the range of lines and then processing the output.

   awk 'NR<=10' filename | awk '{ total += length } END { print total }'
   

   This will print the total number of characters in the first 10 lines.

These methods allow you to manipulate and view both lines and characters from a file in different ways.