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From: farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: printing ONE line from a file
Message-ID: <861@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sun, 15-Jun-86 17:52:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.861
Posted: Sun Jun 15 17:52:50 1986
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       head -linenum <filename> | tail -1