Aman Jain wrote: > Hi > > I would like to create an alias to show Nth line of a file. > > I tried something like > alias shline='head -$1 $2 | tail -1' #$1 is the line number and $2 > is the filename > # Usage should be : > $ shline 5 file.txt > > But it isn't working......
You can't pass parameters to aliases.
> Can anyone suggest a better alternative
Use a function.
shline() { head -n $1 "$2" | tail -n 1; }
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