2013-12-26



To print the even or the odd lines, [0] with awk:

     awk 'NR%2'     # odd
     awk 'NR%2==0'  # even

And with sed (without the need for the modulo calculation):

     sed 'n;d'     # odd
     sed -n 'n;p'  # even

But surely, cat(1) has an option for that as well ... :-/

[0]  http://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=146682&p=967756#p967756


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