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* Remove EOL whitespace in files other than docs * Break paragraphs into lines See http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/ for the rationale * Fix various typos * Remove EOL whitespace in docs/commands/*.md
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lines
This command takes a string from a pipeline as input, and returns a table where each line of the input string is a row in the table. Empty lines are ignored. This command is capable of feeding other commands, such as nth, with its output.
Usage
> [input-command] | lines
Examples
Basic usage:
> printf "Hello\nWorld!\nLove, nushell." | lines
━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
# │ value
───┼────────────────
0 │ Hello
1 │ World!
2 │ Love, nushell.
━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
One useful application is piping the contents of file into lines. This example extracts a certain line from a given file.
> cat lines.md | lines | nth 6
## Examples
Similarly to this example, lines can be used to extract certain portions of or apply transformations to data returned by any program which returns a string.