AWK – By Example
Remove the columns $4 $5 $12 and $13. awk ‘BEGIN{FS=OFS=” “}{$4=$5=$12=$13=””}{print}’ file.txt Break down each line and numbers each field. awk ‘{print NR”: “$0; for(i=1;i<=NF;++i)print “\t”i”: “$i}’ Add list of numbers within a file. awk ‘{total+=$0}END{print total}’ file