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Old 10-27-2009
Nth of a file - bis
I've seen that it has been suggested to use awk to show e.g. the 50th line in a file

awk 'NR==50{print;exit}' file

What about if instead of a number I try to use a variable? e.g. COUNT

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


I can't make it work,

Thanks,
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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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