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Old 03-17-2008
pstanand pstanand is offline
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alternate lines
Hi,
I'm new to Unix. I want to read the all the lines from a text file and write the alternate lines into another file. Please give me a shell script solution.

file1
-----
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven

newfile(it should contain the alternate lines from the file1)
-------
one
three
five
seven

please let me know a solution

Thanks in advance
Pstanand