Reading Particular Line From A File in Unix

yeheyaansari · February 11, 2002, 9:18am

Can any u pls tell me :-

I want to read a particular line from a file, say line no. 10.
This can be done by using awk..but that method I think, is inefficient.
Is there any direct command for this?

Thanks

Perderabo · February 11, 2002, 9:40am

Personally, I would use:
sed -n 10p filename

yeheyaansari · February 12, 2002, 7:42am

Thanks For Ur Reply. I will try it.

What I use today is
sed -n "10s/.*/&/p" filename

But ur reply looks really goodone for me.