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
...
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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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]
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