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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting get the fifth line of a text file into a shell script and trim the line to extract a WORD Post 302478727 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 8th of December 2010 06:18:22 PM
Old 12-08-2010
This will get you the 5th line
Code:
sed -n 5p infile

To check for "string" in 5th line:

Code:
awk 'NR==5&&/string/ {exit 1}' infile || echo "Found it!"

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ts_packet_insert

TS_PACKET_INSERT(1)						   User Commands					       TS_PACKET_INSERT(1)

NAME

       ts_packet_insert - insert packets into a Transport Stream

DESCRIPTION

   Usage:
	      ts_packet_insert [switches] <infile> [switches]

	      Insert TS packets into a Transport Stream at a positions specified by the user.

   Input:
       <infile>
	      A H.222.0 TS stream.

   Switches:
       -p [positions]
	      This  a  a  colon  (':')	delimited string of numbers between 0 and 1, representing how far through to put each ts packet.  E.g.	-p
	      0.1:0.4:0.7:0.9 will insert 4 packets at 10%, 40%, 70% and 90% through the file.

       -pid [pid]
	      The inserted packets will have the pid specfied.

       -s [string]
	      The inserted packets will contain [string] as it's payload.

       -o [output file] The new TS file will be written out to the file
	      specified. (defaults to out.ts)

       -h (--help)
	      This message.

   Example:
	      ts_packet_insert -p 0.3:0.6 -o out.ts -pid 89 -s "AD=start" in.ts

	      ts_packet_insert [switches] <infile> [switches]

	      Insert TS packets into a Transport Stream at a positions specified by the user.

   Input:
       <infile>
	      A H.222.0 TS stream.

   Switches:
       -p [positions]
	      This a a colon (':') delimited string of numbers between 0 and 1, representing how far through to put  each  ts  packet.	 E.g.	-p
	      0.1:0.4:0.7:0.9 will insert 4 packets at 10%, 40%, 70% and 90% through the file.

       -pid [pid]
	      The inserted packets will have the pid specfied.

       -s [string]
	      The inserted packets will contain [string] as it's payload.

       -o [output file] The new TS file will be written out to the file
	      specified. (defaults to out.ts)

       -h (--help)
	      This message.

   Example:
	      ts_packet_insert -p 0.3:0.6 -o out.ts -pid 89 -s "AD=start" in.ts

SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation  for ts_packet_insert is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  Please check http://tstools.berlios.de for more informa-
       tion.

ts_packet_insert 1.11						   November 2008					       TS_PACKET_INSERT(1)
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