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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting head command Post 302108129 by anbu23 on Friday 23rd of February 2007 06:24:32 AM
Old 02-23-2007
You can use sed or awk to get the nth line
For example, to display the 10th line
Code:
sed -n "10{p;q;}" file

or
Code:
awk -v ln=10 ' NR == ln { print; exit } ' file

 

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TIDY_GET_HEAD(3)							 1							  TIDY_GET_HEAD(3)

tidy::head - Returns atidyNodeobject starting from the <head> tag of the tidy parse tree

       Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
tidyNode tidy::head (void ) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style tidyNode tidy_get_head (tidy $object) Returns a tidyNode object starting from the <head> tag of the tidy parse tree. PARAMETERS
o $object - The Tidy object. RETURN VALUES
Returns the tidyNode object. EXAMPLES
Example #1 tidy_get_head(3) example <?php $html = ' <html> <head> <title>test</title> </head> <body> <p>paragraph</p> </body> </html>'; $tidy = tidy_parse_string($html); $head = $tidy->head(); echo $head->value; ?> The above example will output: <head> <title>test</title> </head> NOTES
Note This function is only available with Zend Engine 2 (PHP >= 5.0.0). SEE ALSO
tidy.body(3), tidy.html(3). PHP Documentation Group TIDY_GET_HEAD(3)
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