I have a file: cat file.txt daemon 1): 596 0 0 1 0 0 bin 2): 12 0 0 1 0 0 sys 3): 0 0 0 0 0 0 And i want to only output the first, second, and fourth line to another file. The: sed -n '1,2p;4p' file.txt doesn't work. What magic do i need for it? :D Thanks..:\