Reading the particular line from the file

eamani_sun · #1 (**permalink**) 05-16-2008

Hi,

I need a shell script that would read a specific line from a file.

i mean if I want to read 18th line from the file, it should get the 18th line.

Is there anyway we could do it.?

Thanks in advance.

--Sunny

Dave Miller · #2 (**permalink**) 05-16-2008

There's probably a better way to do this, but, assuming $ln contains the line number you want:

head -n $ln file_name | tail -1

era · #3 (**permalink**) 05-16-2008

Code:

sed -n '20{;p;q;}' file

eamani_sun · #4 (**permalink**) 05-16-2008

Thanks dude,

that solved my problem.

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