I am trying to get a specific line from a text file.
So far, online I have only seen stuff like sed, (I can only use the sh -not bash or sed or anything like that). I need to do this only using a basic shell script.
cat file | while read line
do
#do something
done
I know how to iterate through lines, as shown above, but what if I just need to get the contents of a particular line
sed:
sed '5!d' file
awk:
awk 'NR==5' file