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This would still continue validating even after the 'n'th line has been selected and printed. Hence IMHO exit should be used !
But I'm pretty sure that the same is true of your perl solution. And it is definately true of the sed solution as well.
sed -n '35{p;q;}'
is a bit faster for large files.
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But I'm pretty sure that the same is true of your perl solution. And it is definately true of the sed solution as well.
sed -n '35{p;q;}'
is a bit faster for large files.

Thats a catch ! I surrender

I should have used ' last ' for the perl solutiohn !
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cat filename | head -35 | tail -1
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