moving to a specified line number

xiamin · December 26, 2005, 5:33am

Hi

Is there any command or a trick that can take me to a specifed line number in unix .

Suppose i have a file with 2000 lines and i would like to go to line number 1899 and then print out the contents of the line.

regards
Hrishy

zazzybob · December 26, 2005, 5:43am

sed -n '1899 p' somefile

Cheers
ZB

xiamin · December 26, 2005, 6:27am

Hi Zazzyboy

You are real zaay

regards
Hrishy