[ale] Bash script question

[Geoffrey]

Bob Kruger wrote:
> That worked.
> 
> Thanks, Geoff.

Good deal.  I know you said not having to invoke AWK, but it's one of my 
favorite scripting languages, so I had to throw that one in.  I once 
wrote a language parser with AWK. :)

> 
> V/r
> 
> Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>
> Sent: Oct 11, 2005 11:37 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Bash script question
> 
> Bob Kruger wrote:
> 
>>All;
>>
>>I need to parse some simple text files.  I would like to do this in
>>the BASH shell and not have to invoke Perl, AWK, etc.  I did the same
>>a couple of years ago, but lost the code.
>>
>>If I have a text file that has, for example, 6 lines, and I want to
>>parse field in the 4th line, what can I run from the BASH shell to
>>print out only the 4th line?
> 
> 
> sed -n '4p' text_file
> 
> tail -4 text_file|line
> 
> head  -n4 text_file|tail -1
> 
> awk '{if (NR == 4) {print; exit}}' text_file
> 


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey