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In a file , how to retrieve the lines which are the
multiples of 50 ? like 50,100,150th lines etc.

Answer Posted / shivu

i=50
lines=`wc -l file | cut -d" " -f1`
while [ "$i" -le "$lines" ]
do
head -n $i file | tail -1
i=`expr $i + 50`
done


It works for anything.. :)

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