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Old 04-27-2010
cut the second line in a text file
Hi I have some problem to cut out the second line in a output file and send to a new file it's a #!/bin/bash script


Code:
1 something 
2 something 
3 something

and after I cut

Code:
1 something
3 something

New file

Code:
2 something

Thanks in advance
Last edited by vgersh99; 04-27-2010 at 02:21 PM.. Reason: code tags, please!
# 2  
Old 04-27-2010
MySQL
Code:
sed '2d' file > anotherfile

# 3  
Old 04-27-2010
Hammer & Screwdriver Perhaps something like
head -2 inputfile.txt | tail -1
# 4  
Old 04-27-2010
thanks a million for the answers and quick reply
# 5  
Old 04-27-2010
Code:
awk ' if( NR != 2 ) { print > "File" } else { print > "newFile" } ' File

# 6  
Old 04-27-2010
MySQL
Code:
linecount=0
while read line
  do ((++linecount))
      if [ $linecount -ne 2 ]; then 
         echo $line > anotherfile
      fi 
done < file

Code:
cat anotherfile
1 something
3 something

# 7  
Old 04-27-2010
Code:
$ awk '{if (NR !=2) print $0}' k.txt
1 something
3 something

Last edited by Scott; 04-27-2010 at 03:50 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
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