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Old 01-21-2019
Passing specific and incrementing lines of text from file via variable

This is part of a larger script where I need to pass only 1 line of a file to the script, based on a variable and not a direct reference.


As part of a for loop :


Code:
 #  for((line=0;line<50;line++)); do
 
 
             # awk ‘NR==$line' PhraseList.txt; done


returns nothing.




I know I can call specific lines from file PhraseList.txt such as


Code:
                  awk ‘NR==3' PhraseList.txt


to get the 3rd line from PhraseList.txt


but how do I do this with a variable? Why does $line not work?
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