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02-07-2007

anbu23

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Quote:

Originally Posted by lmadhuri

how do we retrieve a line from a file in unix

Do you want to retrieve a line based on a pattern ?

Code:

grep "pattern" file

or do you want to read file line by line ?

Code:

while read line
do
      echo $line
done < file