Display in reverse order
sed -n '1!G;h;$p' filename.txt
Add line numbers to non-empty lines
sed '/./=' filename.txt | sed 'N; s/\n/ /'
[walternate] (~) >>> sed '/./=' testsed | sed 'N; s/\n/ /'
1 extension=mysql.so
2 extension=mysqli.so
3 extension=pdo_mysql.so
Grab only the relevant lines from a file with awk
awk 'NR==200,NR==230' /path/to/file