Peper schrieb:
> And one more thing, is there any smarter way to read one line of file then
> head -n x file|tail -n 1 ?

sed.

http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt

|[...]
| SELECTIVE PRINTING OF CERTAIN LINES:
|[...]


 # print line number 52
 sed -n '52p'                 # method 1
 sed '52!d'                   # method 2
 sed '52q;d'                  # method 3, efficient on large files


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