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

Question Posted / mohsin68_52

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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 / ramesh jp

awk 'NR % 50 == 0' print

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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 / kavita

awk 'NR % 50 ==0 {print}' filename

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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 / ganeswar bojanapu

Here is simply command

sed -n '50~50'p filename

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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 / sarthak

shivu,

your ans is wrong

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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 / vivek

egrep "^[0-9]*[05]0$" filename

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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 / abhishek

awk 'NR % 2 == 0 {print}' abc.txt

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

Answer / shivu

root@chandru-VirtualBox:~# egrep "^[0-9]*[0|5]0" file
50
100
150
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250
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400
450
500
501
502
503
504
505
506
507
508
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550
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But the below one is
root@chandru-VirtualBox:~# egrep "^[0-9][0|5][0]" file
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
550
600
650
700
750
800
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950
1000

This is also not correct. up to some extend it is ok.

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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 / mohsin

egrep "^[0-9]*[0|5]0" filename

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