Several Frequently Used Commands

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sed '/^\s*$/d' a.txt # delete ALL blank lines
sed '/./,$!d' a.txt # delete all leading blank lines at top of file
 
sed '=' a.txt | sed 'N;s/\n/\t/' # cat -n a.txt
sed '/./=' a.txt | sed '/./N; s/\n/\t/' # number each not blank line of file
 
sed '1!G;h;$!d' a.txt # reverse order of lines
sed '/./,$!d' a.txt # delete all leading blank lines at top of file
sed '$!N; /^\(.*\)\n\1$/!P; D' a.txt # delete duplicate, consecutive lines
 
gawk '$1~/[0-9].*/{total += $2} END{print total}' a.txt
gawk 'BEGIN {"cat c.txt | wc -l"|getline n} n>10 {print}' a.txt
ls | gawk -F. '{system("mv " $0 " " sprintf("%03d", $1) "." $2)}
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