Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Jeff Schaller wrote: > Boy, reminds me of the old "useless use of cat" award... I always > use: I've got a bunch of those on the shelf here, anyone need one? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Nicolas
try "sed -n 'x p; x q' filename " That will print only line x On Monday 21 July 2003 14:54, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to print out > line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far is (in pseudo code) > > cat /tmp/file | head -$x |

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Rus Foster said on Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:54:21AM -0700: > Hi All, > No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to print out > line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far is (in pseudo code) > > cat /tmp/file | head -$x | tail -$x+1 > > Anything better or a perl one liner

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Jeff Schaller
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to > print out line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far > is (in pseudo code) > > cat /tmp/file | head -$x | tail -$x+1 > > Anything better or a perl one liner? Boy, reminds me of the ol