How to get some specific lines from huge text file in unix?

Question

I use importing systems based on delimited text files. The files used can sometimes be almost 2 Gb big and I have to check some lines from that file. So I want to know how ca

Answer 1

In python:

readThisFile = open('YOURFILE')
outputFile = open('OUTPUT', w)

for actualline, linetext in enumerate(readThisFile):
    if actualline == WANTEDLINE
        outputFile.write(linetext)
    else:
        pass

If wanted you can modify that script to work with arguments (like getline.py 1234)