[net.lang.c] printing ONE line from a file

argv@sri-spam.ARPA (AAAARRRRGGGGv) (06/13/86)

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I know this was discussed to death a long time ago, but
can someone send me the [most efficient] awk script that
prints out a specified line from a file? I remember it was 
determined that an awk script did the best job, but I don't
remember.  Please send mail...

dan
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argv@sri-spam.arpa

ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) (06/14/86)

To print line 37 in awk:

	awk 'NR == 37'

To print line 37 in sed:

	sed -n 37p

farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren) (06/16/86)

Or:
       head -linenum <filename> | tail -1