read a line from a file

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1

Can anyone Plz .tell me "How to read the second line from a file" ?

2

Try:

sed -n '2p'  file

or

awk '{ if(NR==2) print; } ' file
3

nother option that uses more resources (actually, miss uses) but is more close to a natural thinking is to use tail and head

head -n2 file | tail -n1