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

If you got multiple lines by delimited by \n (normally new line). You can use 'cut' as well:

echo "$data" | cut -f2 -d$'\n'

You will get the 2nd line from the file. -f3 gives you the 3rd line.