Getting a specific line number

[BryanY]

I want to pull the data from the second line of a file. How would a specify to do that?

 

[PHV]

Different ways:
awk 'NR==2{print;exit}' /path/to/input
sed '2{;p;q;}' /path/to/input
tail -n +2 /path/to/input | head -1

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[olded]

Or simply let the shell do it, korn shell in this case:

#!/bin/ksh

i=0
while read line
do
((i=$i+1))
(( $i == 2 )) && break
done < myfile

echo ${line}

Regards,

Ed

 

[mrn]

Not pretty but effective

head -2 /etc/hosts > /tmp/look.file|tail -1 /tmp/look.file

Mike

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