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 -- Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list