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Show only odd lines with cat

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Mar 15, 202652095 views

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HI, probably is this something very easy, but I do not get the point now. In Linux, shell, given a text file, how can I do something like, cat filename so I only see the first line, the third line, 5, 7, 9 and so on? if not with cat, with another command Thanks

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