This will allow you to read any line number is all shell enviroments:
cat file.txt | sed -n 1p
Where file.txt is the file to read from, and 1 is the line of the file.
Jay Schulist
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Kervin wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Does anyone know how to read a file one line at a time in bourne shell?
>
> I usually program in ksh, and I use "read -u3 $var" where the three is a
> file discriptor opened using "exec". The bourne version of read does not
> support this and I can't find a suitable replacement.
>
> any ideas?
>
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