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Bash script to use a file with line numbers to get the content from those lines from another file
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get_line_content_from_file.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Usage get_line_content_from_file.sh file_containing_linenumbers_only file
while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
awk '{ if(NR==n) print $0 }' n=$line $2
done < "$1"
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