Bash tool to get nth line from a file

Question

Is there a \"canonical\" way of doing that? I\'ve been using head -n | tail -1 which does the trick, but I\'ve been wondering if there\'s a Bash tool that speci

Answer 1

Using what others mentioned, I wanted this to be a quick & dandy function in my bash shell.

Create a file: ~/.functions

Add to it the contents:

getline() { line=$1 sed $line'q;d' $2 }

Then add this to your ~/.bash_profile:

source ~/.functions

Now when you open a new bash window, you can just call the function as so:

getline 441 myfile.txt