Bash scripting question

Hammett · 11-28-2004, 11:37 AM

Hi all!!

I would like to make a script that will output one specific line of a filetext, ie, if a put "script -10 filetext.txt" the output will be the 10th line of that file.

I've been looking around with "cat" and "more", but I'm totally lost.
Any help is appretiated

acid_kewpie · 11-28-2004, 11:42 AM

script:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
head -n $1 $2 | tail -n 1

usage:

Code:

script 20 file

Hammett · 11-28-2004, 12:50 PM

Many thanks !! ^_^

theYinYeti · 11-29-2004, 02:45 AM

cat file.txt | sed -n "10 p"
or
sed -n "20 p" file.txt

10 or 20 here being the line number.

Yves.

acid_kewpie · 11-29-2004, 06:29 AM

i looked at grep for that directly. forgot sed. doh.