How to extract 3rd line 4th column of a file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,
Shell script: I would need help on How to extract 3rd line 4th column of a file with single liner
Thanks in advance.

2

Try this!!

cat abc|head -4|tail -2

3

nawk 'if (NR==3){print $4}' input_file

or
nawk 'NR==3{print $4}' input_file

This will give you the fourth field in the 3rd line

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head -3 file | tail -1 | awk ' { print $4 } '
should work fine

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Alternative way

sed -n '3 p' filename |awk '{ print $4 }'