awk - common awk commands.

Find device names "sd" or with major number 4 and device name "tty". Print the
     record number NR, plus the major number and minor number.

          $ awk '$2 == "sd"||$1 == 4 && $2 == "tty" { print NR,$1,$2}' /proc/devices

     Find device name equal to "sound".

          $ awk '/sound/{print NR,$1,$2}' /proc/devices

     Print the 5th record, first field, in file test

          $ awk 'NR==5{print $1}' test

     Print a record, skip 4 records, print a record etc from file1

          $ awk '(NR-1) % 4 == 0 {print $1}' file1

     Print all records except the last one from file1

          $ tac file1|awk 'NR > 1 {print $0}'|tac

     Print A,B,C ..Z on each line, cycling back to A if greater than 26 lines

          $ awk '{ print substr("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",(NR-1)%26+1,1),$0}' file1

     Number of bytes in a directory.

          $ ls -l|awk 'BEGIN{ c=0}{ c+=$5} END{ print c}'

     Remove duplicate, nonconsecutive line. As an advantage over "sort|uniq"
     you can eliminate duplicate lines in an unsorted file.

          $ awk '! a[$0]++' file1

     Or the more efficient script

          $ awk '!($0 in a) {a[$0];print}' file1

     Print only the lines in file1 that have 80 characters or more

          $ awk 'length < 80' file1

     Print line number 25 on an extremely large file -- note it has
     to be efficient and exit after printing line number 25.

          $ awk 'NR==25 {print; exit}'  verybigfile