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From: jakkanen@server2.mich.com (Jukka Akkanen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: sh command shell script writing. i'm stuck
Date: 26 Jul 1996 09:43:53 -0400
Organization: Optera Systems, Detroit, Michigan
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Message-ID: <4tai2p$h37@server2.mich.com>
References: <4t02d1$nec@cliff.island.net> <4t10n3$7bn@uriah.heep.sax.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: server2.mich.com
In article <4t10n3$7bn@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> tempuser=$(ls /home | awk 'NR == '$counter' {print; exit}')
You really can't beat sed with this particular task. How about:
tempuser=$(ls /home | sed -n ${counter}p)
-Jukka