[SOLVED] Extract a Sequence of lines from a Text File

sparker1970 · 04-04-2012, 04:28 PM

I have a text file 205,383 lines long and I need to extract the data in every 921st line beginning at line 8. Unfortunately this is how we get it from our client.

I have recently been introduced to Linux and am pretty confident it is capable of what I need to do.

Thanks in advance....Steve

sycamorex · 04-04-2012, 04:31 PM

Try the following:

Code:

sed -n '8~921p' file

sparker1970 · 04-04-2012, 09:56 PM

Worked perfectly. Thank you very much. I am a Linux newbie (2 weeks) but a believer.