[already posted in newbie section]

Hi all!

First excuse me for my bad english, but i'm french.

Well... let's stick to the question. In fact I'm looking for a unix command that would allow me to display a precise line of a text file in the console in order to do a grep on an other file to check if the line is in the second file too.

I want to use that in a shell script.

I first planed to use diff to compare my files, but it does'nt match my needs.

Something like that would be perfect:

Command -line_number file.txt.

Thank you ;-)

You could do this:

Yves.

Someone else told me to use sed in that case and actually it works well

Thank you all for your answers

Not here, though. That's the main reason why double- (or more) posting is forbiden by the forum rules.

Glad for you that it works, though. As for the grep part, that's for checking for the presence of the selected line(s) (you may select lines differently if you wish) in the second file, but only if the full (-x) line matches, and in "plain text" (-F), not as a regular expression.

Yves.

I'm sorry... I didn't saw this forum first so i posted in the newbie section.

Since no one answered to me (ok that's right i did'nt wait long) i tried here, because the problem was a little about coding.

I apologize, and one more time, thanks a lot