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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