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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" <siegfried.pietralla@eds.com>
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Subject: Re: Outputing a specific line number to standard output
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In the last episode (Oct 09), Pietralla, Siegfried P said:
> hi there,
> 
> two simple ways:
> 
> using awk:
> 
> $ awk 'NR==54{print;exit}' myfile.txt
> 
> using head and tail:
> 
> $ tail +54 myfile.txt | head -1

Don't forget sed:

sed -n -e '54p' myfile.txt

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	Dan Nelson
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