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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers unix: extract a specific list of lines from a file Post 302397833 by ungalnanban on Tuesday 23rd of February 2010 06:32:50 AM
Old 02-23-2010
MySQL
Using Sed: also we can achieve this requirement

Input file:

Code:
1 aaaaaa bbbcb cccccc
2 aaaaaa bbbbb cccccd
3 aaaaaa bbbab cccccc
4 aaaaaa bbbxb cccccc
5 aaaaaa bbbbb cwcccc
6 aaaaaa bbbbb cqcccc

Sample Code:
Code:
sed -n '/^[3|5]/p' input-file >output-file

Output file:
Code:
3 aaaaaa bbbab cccccc
5 aaaaaa bbbbb cwcccc

Last edited by ungalnanban; 02-23-2010 at 07:34 AM.. Reason: spell mistake correction
 

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