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# 1  
Old 08-13-2008
read line in reverse order from file
dear all

i want to read 5th no of line from last line of file.

kindly suggest me possible ways.

rgds
jaydeep
# 2  
Old 08-13-2008
can you try this with your file
you can use the below..

tail -5 <FILENAME> | head -1

For Example
$ cat testfile.txt
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0

$ tail -5 testfile.txt |head -1
6
# 3  
Old 08-13-2008
Or in case you really mean read the lines in reverse order like the topic title says, look at the tac command.
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