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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Nth of a file - bis Post 302365502 by Scott on Tuesday 27th of October 2009 08:38:42 AM
Old 10-27-2009
Code:
awk 'NR == C {print;exit}' C=$COUNT file

Or
Code:
awk -v C=$COUNT 'NR == C {print;exit}' file

Or
Code:
awk 'NR == '$COUNT' {print; exit}' file

Or with sed:

Code:
sed -n "${COUNT}p" file

Or
Code:
head -$COUNT | tail -1

(etc...)

Last edited by Scott; 10-27-2009 at 09:48 AM..
 

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