grep [options] PATTERN [FILE...]
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<:-)Mike(-:>

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 08:41, JD Austin wrote:
> 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
>
> JD






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