From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2007-09-07T23:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: read a specific line from a file

On Sep 7, 4:50 am, "Robert Klemme" <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2007/9/7, Bulhac Mihai <mihai.bul...@yahoo.com>:
>
> > how can i read only a line from a txt file?
> > for example i want to read only line 3
>
> sed -ne '3 p' your_file
>
> robert

awk "3==NR" your_file