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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
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
501
502
503
504
505
506
507
508
509
550
600
650
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1000

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
850
900
950
1000

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

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 4 No

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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