195. Tenth Line
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Problem:
Given a text file file.txt, print just the 10th line of the file.
Example:
Assume that file.txt has the following content:
Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5 Line 6 Line 7 Line 8 Line 9 Line 10
Your script should output the tenth line, which is:
Line 10
Note:
1. If the file contains less than 10 lines, what should you output?
2. There's at least three different solutions. Try to explore all possibilities.
1. If the file contains less than 10 lines, what should you output?
2. There's at least three different solutions. Try to explore all possibilities.
Solutions:
# Read from the file file.txt and output the tenth line to stdout.
tail -n +10 file.txt | head -n 1