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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extract a specific line from a stream Post 302486418 by Oddant on Saturday 8th of January 2011 11:47:18 AM
Old 01-08-2011
Error Extract a specific line from a stream

Hello,

I'm trying to code a bash script and I was wondering how to extract a specific line from a stream.

E.g.
My file "file" contains three lines and i'd like to find a function f which returns after execution a specific line like the second line, which would be :

Code:
f(file, 2) = Second line of the file (String form)



I was trying to make so with grep, less, cat, more, ... but I can't figure oout any way to make it happens.

Ok to be more precise, I wanna print the name of the n-file in the "ls -1" stream. For example if I type "ls -1", here's the output:

Code:
file1
file2
file3



My script prompts the user to specify the name of the file n he wants to read.
If the user type 2, the new output would be "file2" (string form).
The final line instruction would be something like :

Code:
f( $(ls -1) , n) = the n-line of the output of "ls -1"


Ok so much lines for a little trouble.
I hope someone knows a solution for it, and since i'm french and i'm not sure my problem is well-posted feel free to ask other questions.

Thanks Smilie
 

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NWDIAG(1)						      General Commands Manual							 NWDIAG(1)

NAME
rackdiag - generate rack-structure-diagram image file from spec-text file. SYNOPSIS
rackdiag [options] files DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the rackdiag commands. rackdiag is generate sequence-diagram image file from spec-text file. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files. -h, --help show this help message and exit. --version show program's version number and exit. -a, --antialias Pass diagram image to anti-alias filter. -c FILE, --config=FILE read configurations from FILE. -o FILE write diagram to FILE. -f FONT, --font=FONT use FONT to draw diagram. -T TYPE Output diagram as TYPE format. SEE ALSO
The programs are documented fully by http://blockdiag.com/en/nwdiag/ AUTHOR
rackdiag was written by Takeshi Komiya <i.tkomiya@gmail.com> This manual page was written by Kouhei Maeda <mkouhei@palmtb.net>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). June 11, 2011 NWDIAG(1)
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