Hello,
I just wanted to know if there is a way in UNIX to select a line value from a list of words. there is no line number before each word, hence could not use grep.
Quite hard to comprehend.
Could you please furnish sample input and desired output ?
Assuming that you want to get the value of the list in a filie.
The below code gets the value of the first line in a file
To get the value of the 5th line in afile
@ bobbygsk
many thanks for the insight, it really did help
Perhaps it's more efficient to use sed. To print line 25:
sed '25q;d' file
Or with awk:
awk 'NR==25{print;exit}' file
Regards