Outputing a certain name of a file in a directory

[eeezeepeezee]

how do you output a certain file name in a directory, for example:

a directory has the files named: 1, 2, 3, 4

i tried a ls command and pipeing it to a head command:

ls mydirectory | head -n 2

but this will output the first 2 file names - 1 and 2. i would like to only display the second file name.

[vsemaska]

ls mydirectory | head -n 2 | tail -n 1

[eeezeepeezee]

Thanks! think it did the trick

[i92guboj]

Isn't it just the same than to do "ls dir/filename"?

[scm]

Yeah. Another alternative (TAMTOWTDI!) to print just a known line number is with sed:

ls mydirectory | sed -n 2p