Text Grab and Write

[rnegde]

If anyone has any info you can point me to on this I really would appreciate it.
What I need to do is look through a text file, grab every Nth word and then write those words to a new text file in order that they came in. I really need to be able to set N to what I need it to be, whether it's 5, 12 or 20, etc.
Anyone have any ideas about the best way to go about this??

 

[bfedorcha]

I think AWK would work for what you are trying to accomplish

http://www.canberra.edu.au/~sam/whp/awk-guide.html