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bengalliboy

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I got a data file and I want to display the n'th record
say line number 500 from it. How should do this? TIA
 
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nawk 'FNR == 500' myFile.txt
sed -n '500p' myFile.txt vlad
+---------------------------+
|#include<disclaimer.h> |
+---------------------------+
 
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