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Old 09-05-2005, 06:09 PM  
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Originally Posted by Big E
tail -2314 [file] | head -n 1
That'd pull the last 2314 lines of the file, and print the first one in that list. So I think you'd want to use that backwards, head -2314 [file] | tail -1
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