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02-14-2008

mr_bold

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How to quickly show Nth line from the file

Hi all,

How can I quickly show Nth line from the huge file(at least more than 15GB)? I used the following script but seems slower.

See 2717298 th line.

Code:

head -2717298 data0802.dat | tail -1

Thank you very much

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