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Old 11-25-2012
Help to just print out specific line from an input file
Hi,

I have a file which contains 2,500,500,432 lines.
Can I know what command I should type in order just print out particular line from the input file?
eg. I just wanna to see what is the contents at line 522,484,612.

Thanks for advice.
# 2  
Old 11-25-2012
Code:
sed -n '522484612' input_file

Good luck.
# 3  
Old 11-25-2012
Code:
sed -n '522484612{;p;q;}' file

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Quote:
Originally Posted by patrick87
Code:
sed -n '522484612' input_file

Good luck.
That's not a valid sed script. If I got your intention right, it ought to have been
Code:
sed -n '522484612p' input_file

But, even then it's a useless command. sed will read the whole file which is not at all required.
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Old 11-25-2012
With awk
Code:
 awk 'NR==522484612 {print;exit}' file

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