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awk_tricks.sh
# sum a column
cat your_file.txt | awk '{sum+=$5} END {print sum}'
# use specific delimiters
cat your_file.txt | awk -F" " '{OFS="\t";}{print $1, $2-1, $3-1, $5}'
# grab certain lines in a file
cat your_file.txt | awk 'FNR==10'
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