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From: sena@infinet.UUCP (Fred Sena)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How read a line of a file from C-shell?
Message-ID: <2641@infinet.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 90 16:30:47 GMT
References: <8900@ncar.ucar.edu> <4339@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com> <1990Oct31.232525.7990@diku.dk>
Reply-To: sena@infinet.UUCP (Fred Sena)
Organization: Memotec Datacom, Inc.  North Andover, MA
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In article <1990Oct31.232525.7990@diku.dk> kimcm@diku.dk (Kim Christian Madsen) writes:


I haven't been on the net for a while, so I'm sorry if this response seems
untimely.

The cleanest way that I have found to get a line of a file is:


set line=`sed -n $n'p' $file`

Where $n is the line number, and $file is the file.


There can be a problem if the line contains *'s though.  Not because of sed,
but because of the way that the csh sets the line variable.  You can't store
a '*' in a csh variable because it wants to turn it into file names.
(Correction, I have yet to find a way)

good luck.
	--fred

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Frederick J. Sena                sena@infinet.UUCP
Memotec Datacom, Inc.  N. Andover, MA
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Frederick J. Sena                sena@infinet.UUCP
Memotec Datacom, Inc.  N. Andover, MA