How to extract the second row of a text-file?

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gto mitbbs

  • Jun 10th, 2007
 

tail +2 <filename> | head -1

Subramanyam

  • Jun 20th, 2007
 

head -2 filename|tail -1

aamer123

  • Jul 9th, 2007
 

 sed -n '2p' datafile

srinu

  • Jul 16th, 2011
 

head -2 | tail -1

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Furkan

  • Mar 30th, 2012
 

cut -d -f2

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Debi Maharana

  • Apr 7th, 2012
 

awk NR==

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vijay

  • Jun 21st, 2012
 

sed -n 2p

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Sanjeev

  • Apr 3rd, 2015
 

sed 2 !d filename

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Ataul

  • May 20th, 2015
 

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  2. head -2 filename | tail -1

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  3. Similarly to get the 2nd last line, the order will be reversed that is

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  4. tail -2 filename | head -1



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deepak

  • May 27th, 2015
 

sed -n 2p filename

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Solomon

  • Jan 21st, 2017
 

sed -n 2p

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shubham garg

  • Jan 24th, 2017
 

head -2 filename| tail -1

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Soumya

  • Feb 6th, 2017
 

awk {print $2;} filename

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Vikash Kumar

  • Feb 14th, 2017
 

sed -n 2p FileName

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Tarun Thakur

  • Mar 28th, 2017
 

sed -n 2p filename

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Nasirjamal MohdSiraj

  • May 25th, 2017
 

head -2 test | tail -1

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