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Old 02-21-2012
want to print the file content from the specific line
Hi All,

I would like to print the content from the specific line of a file .

For example... i have file abc.txt which has 100 lines of code ,from this file i would like to print the content from 20,19,18th line......like that


Regards
Srikanth
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Old 02-21-2012
Use the below awk command
Code:
awk 'NR==20 NR==19 NR==18' "abc.txt"

Last edited by Franklin52; 02-21-2012 at 03:18 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
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Old 02-21-2012
thanks for the reply.. Could you please specify any command to print from 20thline to 1st line instead of giving all the line numbers like above..?
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Old 02-21-2012
Code:
sed -n '1,20p;20q' abc.txt | tac

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Old 02-21-2012
You can also modify the above awk and use.
Code:
awk 'NR==1, NR==20' "abc.txt"

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