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Simple question:

Fetch numbers(i) from a list of number; then use each of the number to do sth.

for i in list_of_number;do cat file|head -$(($i+1))|tail -1;done

This seems right but actually doesn't work. What's the problem here? thx

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Doing this will treat list_of_number as a string; I assume this is a file which contains a list of numbers that you want to loop over.

Try instead: 

 for i in `cat list_of_number`;do cat file|head -$(($i+1))|tail -1;done
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no worries, I make these types of mistakes all the time. Bash can be pretty unforgiving.

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