Different methods

The different ways in UNIX, one of the popular article series of The UNIX School:

  1. How to find the length of a string or variable?.
  2. How to print or display only the lines in a file which are not empty.?
  3. How to split the PATH variable.?
  4. How to get the total line count of a file?
  5. How to do arithmetic operations in Linux.?
  6. How to list the file without ls command.?
  7. How to rename a group of files?
  8. How to remove or delete the Control-M characters in a file?
  9. How to add the first line and last line to a file.?
  10. How to number the file contents?
  11. How to dump the hex contents of a file?
  12. How to join or concatenate all lines in a file?
  13. How to find the sum of all the numbers in file?
  14. How to split the file contents?
  15. How to display the contents in a file?
  16. How to capitalize the contents in a file?
  17. How to retrieve the file name from absolute path?
  18. How to print the first line or the header of the file?
  19. How to zero pad a number or a variable?
  20. How to print the first few characters of a file?
  21. How to print the next few lines after pattern match?
  22. How to reverse a string in Linux?
  23. How to print the last line or the trailer of a file?
  24. How to right pad a number or a string?
  25. How to swap every 2 lines in a file?
  26. How to reverse the order of file content?
  27. How to join every 2 lines in a file?
  28. How to insert a line before or after a pattern?
  29. How to read 2 files line by line alternatively?
  30. How to print few lines before a pattern match?
  31. How to insert a line after every n lines in Linux?
  32. How to change the delimiter of a file in Linux?
  33. How to find sum of all columns / numbers in a line?
  34. How to remove duplicate records from a file in Linux?
  35. How to find duplicate records of a file?
  36. How to find the total count of a word / string in a file?
  37. How to remove a component of absolute path?
  38. How to retrieve or extract the tag value from XML in Linux?
  39. How to swap 2 columns in a file in Linux?
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