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The command redirects input from file1 to the command, redirects standard output to file2, and redirects standard error to file3. Executing a command with exec replaces the current process rather than creating a new child process, so the shell will terminate when the command finishes. To emulate wc -l and count lines using awk, use the END block and print the NR variable which contains the number of input records/lines processed. To count lines containing a specific word in a file, use grep -c and the search word as the argument. egrep supports additional regex features like quantifiers and alternation that standard grep does not.

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Lice 22

The command redirects input from file1 to the command, redirects standard output to file2, and redirects standard error to file3. Executing a command with exec replaces the current process rather than creating a new child process, so the shell will terminate when the command finishes. To emulate wc -l and count lines using awk, use the END block and print the NR variable which contains the number of input records/lines processed. To count lines containing a specific word in a file, use grep -c and the search word as the argument. egrep supports additional regex features like quantifiers and alternation that standard grep does not.

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27: I want to read all input to the command from file1 direct all output to file2 and error to

file 3, how can I achieve this?

command <file1 1>file2 2>file3

28: What will happen to my current process when I execute a command using exec?

“exec” overlays the newly forked process on the current process ; so when I execute the
command using exec, the command gets executed on the current shell without creating any new
processes.

Eg: Executing “exec ls” on command prompt will execute ls and once ls exits, the process will
shut down

29: How will you emulate wc –l using awk?

awk ‘END {print NR} fileName’

30: Given a file find the count of lines containing word “ABC”.

grep –c “ABC” file1

31: What is the difference between grep and egrep?

egrep is Extended grep that supports added grep features like “+” (1 or more occurrence of
previous character),”?”(0 or 1 occurrence of previous character) and “|” (alternate matching)

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