view a particular line of a file denoted by a number

Question

Okay, this is probably an evident thing but it escapes me, as in it could probably be done in a much simpler way that I'm not aware of, so far.. Say there's a "file" and I want to view only what's on line number "X" of that file, what would be the solution?

here's what i can think of:

head -X < file | tail -1    sed -n Xp < file 

is there anything else (or any other way) from the standard set of unix/gnu/linux text-tools/utils?

Answer 1

sed -n 'Xp' theFile, where X is your line number and theFile is your file.