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Old 11-06-2003, 04:12 AM   #1
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Question Printing a line number

How can I in a shell script print a certain line?
For example: <command> --line-number=3 /myfile

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Old 11-06-2003, 04:39 AM   #2
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head -3 myfile | tail -1

or

awk 'NR==3 {print $0}' myfile

prints the 3rd line of myfile
 
Old 11-06-2003, 06:09 AM   #3
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sed -n 57p myfile.txt

prints line 57 of myfile.txt
 
  


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