in reply to printing specific lines

I'm sorry, but I don't understand your question. Are the 1 3 5 7 the line numbers you want to print or are they the actual lines in a file? What is the output file you are are writing to, are you trying to print out to that file or STDOUT?

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Re^2: printing specific lines
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2005 at 21:08 UTC
    the line numbers to print are stored in a file. 
    1
3
5

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    once upon a time
...
big bear
....
shot dead

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    so the lines i want to print are 1 3 and 5, to a separate output file thanks
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