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Old 09-12-2004, 06:37 PM   #1
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Command to output file content line by line

Hi,

Is there a command that will output a requested line number of a file?
 
Old 09-12-2004, 07:01 PM   #2
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I don't know of a specific command (there probably is one somewhere), but you can use:
Code:
head -n 100 filename | tail -n 1
to print out line 100.
 
Old 09-12-2004, 07:45 PM   #3
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Hi,

Try this:

sed -n 100p filename

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