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Old 05-27-2004, 06:44 PM   #1
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Quick Q: Command to print line number X?


I need a command to print line number X that is not like more or less, because I tried a 'more -1 +9' or something, and I can't print just that one line without all of more's things. Is there any simple way of doing this? I don't feel like writing an awk script or something just for this...

E.g.
cat README | linenum --line=5
Which would print line 5 of README.
 
Old 05-27-2004, 08:49 PM   #2
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sed '5,5!d' <filename>

To display line five of file <filename>



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