Re: Reading a particular line in a file

Quoting Michael Havens <bmike1@vei.net>:

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

That will give you every line that matches the pattern in the file.
Though if there is only one line with the pattern then it it would get a
particular line.

JD
> > 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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