want line whatever i want is there any way

kittusri9 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-15-2008

Hi friends

I need to get what ever line number i want

Supplier.profile
-----------------
SFTP/INVTRAN
SFTP/INVSNAP
GATEWAY/INVTRAN
GATEWAY/INVSNAP

----------------

exec 0<$Supplier.profile
while read LINE
do
echo $LINE
done
------------------------------

it prints line by line but i need what ever line i want
like

line4 -> GATEWAY/INVSNAP
OR
LINE3 -> GATEWAY/INVTRAN

is there any way to get like that

Thanks
Krish.

era · #2 (**permalink**) 05-15-2008

How do you know which line you want?

If you know you want line 3,

Code:

sed -n 3p Supplier.profile

Yogesh Sawant · #3 (**permalink**) 05-16-2008

if you want to see line numbers for all the lines:

Code:

cat -n filename

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