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how to output only a specific known line number using cat or head/tail
I know how to use head or tail to output a certain number of lines, but how do I output only a specific line number(s)?
Something like:
head --only-line=73 <file>
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How can I detect/remove special characters from this short text file?
This is the contents of a short text file created by an AppleScript written by someone else:
Search time: Sunday April 28, 2019 at 07:21:07
Search complete. Nothing found.
But, when I use cat I get ...
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head and cat don't recognize Microsoft Excel text files
I have a large .xls file with 53760 rows and 19 columns. I saved it as Tab Delimited Text in order to pre-process it through command line tools and load it into R later. However, when I run
head ...
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