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Old 12-01-2007
Question grep the string with the line number

Dear Masters,
Here i have some doubts can anyone clarify?.

Is it possible to grep the lines by specifying the line numbers.

I know the line number which i want to grep.
example:
grep 40th line filename
grep 50th line filename


Need ur comments.

Last edited by salaathi; 12-01-2007 at 06:54 AM.. Reason: to simplify the readers understand
# 2  
Old 12-01-2007
To print the 40th line:

Code:
sed '40q;d' file

or
Code:
awk 'NR==40 {print;exit}'

Regards
# 3  
Old 12-01-2007
You can use nawk 'NR==40' filename to grab particular line
# 4  
Old 12-01-2007
MySQL

Dear all,
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Old 12-04-2007
MySQL hey

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