Simplest way to output nth line of file to stdout?

lumix · 05-18-2008, 06:20 PM

For the 27th, I could probably do:

Code:

head -n 27 |tail -n 1

but I feel like there's a grep or other tail option that I'm overlooking that'll do it in one command.

David the H. · 05-18-2008, 07:59 PM

"sed -n 27p file.txt" appears to do the trick. You can do ranges of lines by separating the numbers with a comma. e.g. "sed -n 27,35p"

syg00 · 05-18-2008, 09:41 PM

You can also tell it to quit - else it continues on, reading the whole file. Useful for *really* big files.