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Write a command delete all line except first line?

1 2013

Write a command to print zero byte size files?

745

how to run awk command specified in a file?

2 2323

Write a command remove all empty lines?

1 1881

Write a command to print the line number before each line?

856

How add a first record and last record to the current file in linux?

1279

How to get only zero byte files which are present in the directory?

802

How to display even number of records into one file and odd number of records into another file?

787

How to print only blank line of file?

853

Write a command to print the second and third line of a file without using nr?

754

Write a command to find the total number of lines in a file without using nr?

822

Write a command to print all line except first line?

714

Write a command to rename the files in a directory with "_new" as postfix?

1143

In the text file, some lines are delimited by colon and some are delimited by space. Write a command to print the third field of each line.?

930

Write a command to print the squares of numbers from 1 to 10 using awk command?

1100

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What are Associative Arrays?

1234

Write a command to print all line except first line?

714

What is the use of string function sub(regex,replacement,string)?

1311

What is the use of string function substr(string,position,max) in AWK?

1305

Usage of And/Or/Not operators in AWK?

1201

How to print only blank line of file?

853

What is the use of Strftime function?

1459

How to get only zero byte files which are present in the directory?

802

How to execute an AWK script?

1229

What is the use of RSTART, RLENGTH and match ?

1551

What are System functions?

1325

What is the use of FNR?

1389

Write a command to print the line number before each line?

856

How to exit from an awk script using the exit command?

1246

How do you Explicit File output?

1142

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