awk

AWK tricks and tips

  • remove duplicate lines without sorting (will keep first instance)
    awk '!a[$0]++' file

  • filtering - if the 5th column is 0 then skip it and print the rest
    awk '{ if ($5 == 0) next; print }' file

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