I’m pretty new to using Linux commands. So suppose I have a file with 100 thousand lines. Well suppose I want to get line 50,000. Is there a way I can give the shell a command to retrieve line 50,000 using head and tail commands?
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I’m pretty new to using Linux commands. So suppose I have a file with 100 thousand lines. Well suppose I want to get line 50,000. Is there a way I can give the shell a command to retrieve line 50,000 using head and tail commands?
That should work. However this may not be the most efficient way of accessing the 50000th line