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From: Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com>
To: "Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS)" <Pradeep.Sadanapalli@med.ge.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: To extract a particular line(given by line number)  from a file
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:15:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030328131515.C9113@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2DE78F33FFE0D3118C0200508B94F9CA19420E8C@uswaumsx08medge.med.ge.com> from Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) on 03/28/2003 12:35

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tail +5 somefile | head -1

or

cat -n somefile | grep '  *5 '

or

sed -ne 5p somefile

or

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On 03/28/2003 12:35 -0600, Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) wrote:
>>	Hi Friends,
>>	I am running RedHat Linux 8.0. I want to do the following .
>>	
>>	I have a file with several lines of data in it. I want to extract a line
>>	I want from the file
>>	and display the whole line of data. 'grep' searches only for patterns,as
>>	I believe. I don't want to search for patterns. 
>>	I just directly want to extract the data by line numbers.For example, I
>>	want to get the data in line number 5.
>>	
>>	How can I do this? Is there any command to do this? Please help me. I
>>	hope I am clear.
>>	
>>	Thanks,
>>	Pradeep
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-28 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-28 18:35 To extract a particular line(given by line number) from a file Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS)
2003-03-28 19:15 ` Tim Walberg [this message]
2003-03-28 19:26 ` Ashish V. Orpe
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2003-03-28 19:20 jbrown105

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