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Offtopic for the site, but sed's a much better tool for that job. It's very easy to do with sed addressing: 
sed -n 32\!p filename

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Sadly, I don't have a clever or shorter way to do it in perl. The number 32 can be anything, of course

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Re^2: sed (was: Save all but line 32!)
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 19, 2002 at 18:57 UTC
    Golf time! :^) sed -e 32d filename

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      8 instead of 11 chars (excluding the filename) :^) 

      t filename^G32^M^D^S

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      T is my editor

      ^G32 := goto line 32

      ^M := return to terminate/execute the goto

      ^D := delete the line

      ^S := Save and exit!

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        It's 10 actually, I can leave out a space. sed -e32d filename Also, yours is 12 keystrokes. And once we get to multiple files, yours grows linearly, mine is constant.. :^) for F in *;do sed -e32d "$F";done (NB: a loop is necessary since we'll otherwise only delete the 32nd line of the first file.)

        Makeshifts last the longest.

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