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The array approach would be 
perl -e'@x=<>; print $x[3]'

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but that loads the entire file into memory where the $. method doesn't. Just putting it out there since you tried to use an array.

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Re^2: perl one liner to print a line
by sugar (Beadle) on Dec 12, 2008 at 02:03 UTC
    yea... i dont want to take the whole file into memory. so $. is a better way for me :)
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Re^2: perl one liner to print a line
by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Dec 12, 2008 at 07:11 UTC

    Or: 

    perl -F'\n' -lan0777e'print $F[3]' file.txt

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