I had a problem recently where I wanted to extract every 5th line from file and I knew that every 10 lines data points to same 10 keys
awk 'NR%5 == 0' file.txt
gave me that
In general if we want to extract every nth line from file with repeated section of length L
we can just do
awk 'NR%L == n' file.txt
Assume that we have lines with every section of 5 lines
awk 'NR%5 == 1' values | awk '{n += $1}; END{print n}' # sum of every 1st line
awk 'NR%5 == 2' values | awk '{n += $1}; END{print n}' # sum of every 2nd line
awk 'NR%5 == 3' values | awk '{n += $1}; END{print n}' # sum of every 3rd line
awk 'NR%5 == 4' values | awk '{n += $1}; END{print n}' # sum of every 4th line
awk 'NR%5 == 0' values | awk '{n += $1}; END{print n}' # sum of every 5th line
awk 'NR%5 == 0' file.txt
gave me that
In general if we want to extract every nth line from file with repeated section of length L
we can just do
awk 'NR%L == n' file.txt
Assume that we have lines with every section of 5 lines
awk 'NR%5 == 1' values | awk '{n += $1}; END{print n}' # sum of every 1st line
awk 'NR%5 == 2' values | awk '{n += $1}; END{print n}' # sum of every 2nd line
awk 'NR%5 == 3' values | awk '{n += $1}; END{print n}' # sum of every 3rd line
awk 'NR%5 == 4' values | awk '{n += $1}; END{print n}' # sum of every 4th line
awk 'NR%5 == 0' values | awk '{n += $1}; END{print n}' # sum of every 5th line