in reply to reading the file using the line number

inspired by tom christiansens oneliners:

perl -ne 'print if $. == $number; exit if $. > $number;'

Edit: corrected typo, thx to davorg

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Re^2: reading the file using the line number
by davorg (Chancellor) on Nov 29, 2006 at 10:20 UTC
    perl -ne 'print if $. = $number; exit if $. > $number;'

    You probably want '==', not '=', there.

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