What if you want to get the 7th line of a text file. For example, you could get the 7th line of the /etc/hosts file, by using the head and tail commands, like this:
An even easier way to do it, is:# head -7 /etc/hosts | tail -1 # Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
# sed -n 7p /etc/hosts # Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
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