Reading a specific line of a file

You could use sed.

# print line number 10$ sed -n '10p' file_name$ sed '10!d' file_name$ sed '10q;d' file_name

shell command-line text

#print 10th lineawk NR==10 file_name

shell command-line text

awk -v linenum=10 'NR == linenum {print; exit}' file

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