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How to Extract Specific Lines from a File: sed, awk, head/tail, grep, and with powershell
In the command line, it’s often necessary to extract only specific lines from a text file – whether it’s a single line or a range of lines. Fortunately, Bash offers several powerful tools for this. In this blog post, I’ll show you the most common methods using sed, awk, head/tail, and grep. Additionally, I will demonstrate an option when using PowerShell. Extracting Lines with sed sed (Stream EDitor) is a classic for text manipulation in the shell and is excellent for selectively outputting line ranges.Output a Single Line (e.g., Line 102)To output a specific line, such as line 102, you use the p command (print) in combination with the -n…