Going to a specific line number using Less in Unix

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I have a file that has around million lines  I need to go to line number 320123 to check the data  How do I do that

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For editing this is possible in nano via  n from command line  e g    nano  16 file txt  To open file txt to line 16

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From within less  in Linux      g and the line number to go forward   G and the line number to go backwards   Used alone  g and G will take you to the first and last line in a file respectively  used with a number they are both equivalent   An example  you want to go to line 320123 of a file      press  g  and after the colon type in the number 320123   Additionally you can type  -N  inside less to activate   deactivate the line numbers  You can as a matter of fact pass any command line switches from inside the program  such as -j or -N   NOTE  You can provide the line number in the command line to start less  less  number -N  which will be much faster than doing it from inside the program    less  12345 -N  var log hugelogfile   This will open a file displaying the line numbers and starting at line 12345  Source  man 1 less and built-in help in less  less 418

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You can use sed for this too -   sed -n  320123 p filename    This will print line number 320123    If you want a range then you can do -  sed -n  320123 320150 p filename    If you want from a particular line to the very end then -  sed -n  320123   p filename

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To open at a specific line straight from the command line  use   less  320123 filename   If you want to see the line numbers too   less  320123 -N filename   You can also choose to display a specific line of the file at a specific line of the terminal  for when you need a few lines of context  For example  this will open the file with line 320123 on the 10th line of the terminal   less  320123 -j 10 filename

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With n being the line number    ng  Jump to line number n  Default is the start of the file  nG  Jump to line number n  Default is the end of the file    So to go to line number 320123  you would type 320123g   Copy-pasted straight from Wikipedia

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