ITworld Nth line http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/46156/all en Unix: How to select every 1,000th line from a file http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/370390/unix-how-select-every-1000th-line-file Log files on Unix systems can easily grow to hundreds of thousands or even millions of lines. Here&#039;s a simple way to pluck out every Nth line.<p><a href="http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/370390/unix-how-select-every-1000th-line-file" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/370390/unix-how-select-every-1000th-line-file#comments Big Data Operating Systems How-to operatingsystems Nth line picking sed selecting Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:46:32 +0000 Sandra Henry-Stocker 370390 at http://www.itworld.com