Yet Another Linux Blog » Asides http://linux-blog.org Open Source, Open Blog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:18:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Read & Display Single Line of a File http://linux-blog.org/read-display-single-line-of-a-file/ http://linux-blog.org/read-display-single-line-of-a-file/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:38:49 +0000 devnet http://linux-blog.org/?p=780
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    head -n 96 filename.php | tail -n 1

    This allows you to quickly display the 96th line of filename.php. Hope this helps someone like it has me.

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