kenny@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu (04/08/88)
/* Written 11:07 am Apr 6, 1988 by uejio@lll-lcc.aRpA in uiucdcsb:comp.unix.questions */ /* ---------- "wanted: utility to extract lines by" ---------- */ Does anyone know of a utility which will extract the nth line of a file? /* End of text from uiucdcsb:comp.unix.questions */ head -n file | tail +m will isolate lines m-n from file. Example: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ % cat foo this is a test of extracting lines % head -4 foo | tail +3 a test ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin