only output the nth line

Rares Aioanei fedora.listen at gmail.com
Wed May 12 17:07:54 UTC 2010


On Wed, 12 May 2010 18:58:56 +0200
Jozsi Vadkan <jozsi.avadkan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a file:
> 
> cat file.txt
> daemon
> 1):
> 596
> 0
> 0
> 1
> 0
> 0
> bin
> 2):
> 12
> 0
> 0
> 1
> 0
> 0
> sys
> 3):
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 
> 
> 
> And i want to only output the first, second, and fourth line to another
> file.
> 
> The:
> 
> sed -n '1,2p;4p' file.txt
> 
> doesn't work.
> 
> What magic do i need for it? :D
> 
> Thanks..:\
> 
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You can try some awk, methinks; I don't remeber how
to do it, but I say it's a good direction.
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Rares Aioanei <fedora.listen at gmail.com>


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