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how to display specific lines from a file in linux

Write a bash script to print a particular line from a file:

awk = $ awk '{if(NR==LINE_NUMBER) print $0}' file.txt
sed = $ sed -n LINE_NUMBERp file.txt

show specific lines in file linux

$ cat sample_file.txt | awk 'NR==9'     #[Prints 9th line]