Re: Reading a particular line in a file

Quoting Ben Coffman <ben_coffman@hotmail.com>:

> Is there a command line argument that lets you grab a particular line from
> from a text file in Linux or Unix?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>


You can use head/tail to do that.
Say you want line 4:
head --lines=4 filename | tail --lines=1

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