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# 1  
Old 10-23-2008
To print a specific line in Shell or awk.
Hi,

I want to echo the 15th line from a file named as abc.txt, also i want to echo only the values in that line not the line number.

Thanks in advanceSmilie
# 2  
Old 10-23-2008
Code:
#  sed -n '15p' abc.txt

or

#  awk 'NR==15{print}' abc.txt

or 

# head -15 abc.txt | tail -1

or
.... :-)

# 3  
Old 10-23-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tytalus
Code:
..
#  awk 'NR==15{print}' abc.txt

You don't need to print
Code:
 awk 'NR==15' abc.txt

# 4  
Old 10-23-2008
true - bad habits :-)
# 5  
Old 10-23-2008
Thanks a lot, it really worked.Smilie
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