Process Text Files

Question 1

printf command

Answer 1

Provides the user with more control over how the output is formatted

Question 2

tr command

Answer 2

Perform operations like removing repeated characters, converting uppercase to lowercase, and basic character replacement and removal

Question 3

sort command

Answer 3

Command line utility for sorting lines of text files

Question 4

wc command

Answer 4

Allows users to count the number of lines, words, characters, and bytes in file and print the result

Question 5

diff command

Answer 5

Used to compare text files

Question 6

diff <

Answer 6

Line should be removed from the first file

Question 7

diff >

Answer 7

Line should be added from the second file

Question 8

awk

Answer 8

Performs pattern matching on files

Question 9

/regular_expression/

Answer 9

Retrieves all the records beginning with “a”, “b”, or “c”