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Answer 1

+2 A:

In bash you can do:

for i in {1..5}
do
  read line
  echo $line >> file.txt
done

codaddict 2010-10-04 02:54:55

thanks for the quick response !!

steven 2010-10-04 03:12:07

Or `... read -r line; echo "$line"; done > file.text` - add `-r` to accept backslashes literally, quote the variable to preserve whitespace and do all your output at once.

Dennis Williamson 2010-10-04 03:59:59

Answer 2

A:

Does this count?

sed 5q > file.txt

Jonathan Leffler 2010-10-04 03:35:11

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