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move to a particular position and line

Hi,

How can i move to particular line and to a particular position in a file using unix commands ?

eg: in the line 30 and position 10 i want to print my name in a file.

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look in your previous posts here. you have been shown how to use awk. Now, read the docs and see if you can come up with the code yourself.

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