Printing a specific line

charlie123 · 02-08-2003, 06:44 PM

Hey, i have search but i must be looking for the wrong thing cos i cant find any answers.
Basically, in the terminal, how can i print a specified line from a file (like line 4). i have read through grep, more, less and cat manuals but none of them seem to have the option to print only one specified line.

does anyone know of a command that will do this?

Many thanks

CHarlie

vladkrack · 02-10-2003, 10:11 AM

Sed does:

# sed -n 1p file

this will print the first line of a file...

Dark_Helmet · 02-10-2003, 10:59 AM

Well... I imagine there is a better way than this, but you could use a combination of head and tail. Say you wanted line 15 from a file named my_text.txt:

Code:

head -15 my_text.txt | tail -1