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34 lines
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# lines
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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.
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## Usage
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```shell
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> [input-command] | lines
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```
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## Examples
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Basic usage:
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```shell
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> printf "Hello\nWorld!\nLove, nushell." | lines
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━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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# │ value
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───┼────────────────
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0 │ Hello
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1 │ World!
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2 │ Love, nushell.
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━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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```
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One useful application is piping the contents of file into `lines`. This example extracts a certain line from a given file.
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```shell
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> cat lines.md | lines | nth 6
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## Examples
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```
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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.
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