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From: Billy Holmes <billy@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Bash scripting
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:01:34
Message-Id: 43750467.9000608@gonoph.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Bash scripting by Peper
1 Peper wrote:
2 > And one more thing, is there any smarter way to read one line of file then
3 > head -n x file|tail -n 1 ?
4
5 if you know the line number from the top:
6
7 sed -n ${line}p
8
9 if you don't know the number from the top but from the bottom, then tail
10 | tail is your best bet...
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