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Unix Assignment 1

The document contains 7 questions and answers about UNIX commands. Question 1 asks how to list all files in subfolders and the answer is "ls -R". Question 2 asks how to search files for a string and the answer is "grep" inside a for loop. Question 3 asks how to rename all files with a prefix and the answer uses "mv" inside a for loop to add "Unix_" to each file name.

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Unix Assignment 1

The document contains 7 questions and answers about UNIX commands. Question 1 asks how to list all files in subfolders and the answer is "ls -R". Question 2 asks how to search files for a string and the answer is "grep" inside a for loop. Question 3 asks how to rename all files with a prefix and the answer uses "mv" inside a for loop to add "Unix_" to each file name.

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UNIX ASSIGNMENT Question 1: Write a command to list all the files inside a folder i.e.

if there is a folder inside a folder then it should list all files inside the sub-folder which is inside the folder to be listed. Answer 1: ls -R Question 2:Search all the files which contains a particular string, say thin a folder. Answer 2: for i in *.*; do grep -l include $i; done include wi

Question 3: Rename all the files within a folder with suffix Unix_ i.e. suppose a folder has two files [Link] and [Link] than they both should be renamed from a sin gle command to Unix_a.txt and Unix_b.pdf Answer 3: for i in *.*; do mv $i Unix_$i; done ;

Question 4: Rename all files within a folder with the first word of their conten t(remember all the files should be text files. For example if [Link] contains Unix is an OS in its first line then [Link] should be renamed to [Link] Answer 4 : for i in *.txt; do j= "$(head -1 $i "; done cut -f1-d" ").txt"; mv "$i" "$j

Question 5 : Suppose you have a C project in a folder called project , it contains .c and .h files, it also contains some other .txt files and .pdf files. Write a Linux command that will count the number of lines of your text files. That means total line count of every file. (remember you have to count the lines in .txt f iles only) Answer 5 : wc -l *.txt

Question 6 : Rename all files which contain the sub-string 'foo', replacing it w ith 'bar' within a given folder. Answer 6 :for i in ./*foo*; do mv "$i" "${i//foo/bar}";done

Question 7 : Show the most commonly used commands from history . [hint: remember th e history command, use cut, and sort it. Answer 7 : history cut -f6- -d" " sort

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