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Posted: July 27 2006,20:12 QUOTE
Now this one will really show my age.

ed -s .filetool.lst << EOF
3,3p
EOF

Using ed will print the third line of a line.

Does anyone still use ed ?
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Posted: July 28 2006,03:18 QUOTE
Quote (roberts @ July 27 2006,15:53)
Make sure you use two equal signs and not one

awk 'NR == 3' .filetool.lst

Ah...that's the stuff.  thanks.

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Posted: July 28 2006,05:36 QUOTE
That command came very useful. See my automount script post.

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