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Old 07-24-2006, 06:39 AM   #1
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find a Nth line in text file

Hi All,
How I can print "N" th line in normal text file?

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Old 07-24-2006, 06:51 AM   #2
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Hi,

There are probably more ways, this came to mind first:

sed -n '10p' infile

This prints line number 10.

Ranges are also possible:

sed -n '3,5p' infile, prints lines 3, 4 and 5.

Hope this helps.
 
Old 07-24-2006, 11:56 PM   #3
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