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Suppose we have a file cat -n lorem_ipsum.txt 1 Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. 2 Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen...

If you have the following data file cat data.csv 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 maybe you need to read the fourth column of the third line, this would be "24" awk 'NR==3 ...

If a file may contain Windows or Unix-like line endings (or even a mixture of both) then the intended text replacement may not work as expected. Sample: $ echo -e 'Entry 1\nEntry 2.1\tEntry 2.2\r\nEntry 3\r\n\r\n' \ > | awk -F'\t' '$1 != "" { print $1 }' \ > | hexdump -c 0000000...