Read a selected liine from a text file

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Author: Daniel Montagnese
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Read a selected liine from a text file
One way to see a selected line in a text file is:
sed -ne '3{p;q;}' file_name

3 is the line number.

Dan Montagnese


    
        
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