in reply to reading the file using the line number
inspired by tom christiansens oneliners:
perl -ne 'print if $. == $number; exit if $. > $number;'
Edit: corrected typo, thx to davorg
perl -ne 'print if $. == $number; exit if $. > $number;'
Edit: corrected typo, thx to davorg
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