CSCE 3600: Systems Programming

Minor Assignment 1 – sed and gawk

Due: 11:59 PM on Saturday, September 25, 2021

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
In this assignment, you will write sed and gawk commands to accomplish certain
requested functionality. Given the many powerful features of sed and gawk, you are
provided with links to manuals and tutorials for sed and gawk to assist you in completing
this assignment.
Using sed
a) Consider the following file called palindrome containing some 6-letter words, some
of them palindromes (i.e., words that read the same backwards and forwards) and
some not:
toyota pullup
abccba nissan
redder
Write a one-line sed command that prints out only the lines containing 6-letter
palindromes so that after running the appropriate sed command, the following would
be output to the terminal:
pullup abccba
redder
You may write the sed command-line in the space provided below and ensure that
this Word document (with your solutions) is submitted to Canvas.
Answer:

b) Consider the following file called phone.txt containing some arbitrary airline phone
numbers as follows:
(866) 879-7647
(888) 474-7424
(371) 670-6006
(866) 266-5588
(844) 415-3955
(800) 237-2747
(800) 667-2747

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 Write a complete sed script called minor1.sed that will encrypt the phone data
according to the following:
1. Preprocessing:
a. Remove the parentheses from each phone number.
b. Remove any whitespace from each phone number.
c. Remove any dashes (i.e., '-') from each phone number.

2. Transposition (i.e., rearrange the order of individual characters):

a. Swap the third and eighth number in each phone number.
3. Substitution (i.e., replace characters by other characters):
a. Substitute each number in the phone number with random letters, being
sure to use an even mix of upper- and lower-case letters.
4. Append extra data:
a. Append the first 10 letters of your first and last name AFTER the third phone
number in the file. If your first and last names combined are shorter than 10
letters, use letters from your middle name as well. In this file, for example,
my sed script should print the following:
$ sed -r -f minor1.sed phone.txt
FSSFDGDStD FFttDtDFet
rDqSDqSwqS MarkThomps
FSAeSSASFF
FtGtwArtAA
FqDerDeqtD FqDSSDeqtD
This sed script file will be submitted to Canvas.

Using gawk
a) Consider a list of angles in degrees, such as the following angles.txt file:
Degrees
135
90
1860
-45
0
-270
1170
-180
-795
-630

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When two angles have the same initial and terminal sides, they are called
coterminal. This means that angles of 90° and -270° are coterminal as the
following figure shows:

In fact, all of the following angles shown in the figure below are coterminal:

We want to make sure that all angle values in degrees are between 0° < x < 360°. For
any file containing a list of angles in degrees with the Degrees header line at the top
(as in angles.txt), write a complete gawk program that prints out the original value
of the angle in the file as well as its coterminal value between 0° < x < 360°. In this
file, for example, the gawk program should print the following:
$ gawk -f minor1.gawk angles.txt
135 135
90 90
1860 60
-45 315
0 0
-270 90
1170 90
-180 180
-795 - 285
630 90
Formatting properly in columns as shown is required. This gawk program file will be
submitted to Canvas.
a) Consider the following file called salaries.csv:
uid,loc,div,year,sal
dgarcia,WDC,fin,2017,102900
ejones,SEA,sales,2016,56450
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 dlarkin,RCH,rsrch,2018,78435
ccartwright,RCH,acct,2018,48775
mlesko,OTT,rsrch,2017,93870
criggs,WDC,sales,2018,62334
jpetrovski,RCH,acct,2016,68348
tchepregi,SEA,rsrch,2017,84290
amurchin,OTT,sales,2018,49038
gcarlson,RCH,fin,2018,70000
swelsh,WDC,sales,2016,39876
Each field in this file is separated by a comma and each record is separated by a
newline character. For this file, you will write a one-line gawk command-line to filter
records for employees who earn $50,000 or more in 2018. Specifically, you will print
out only the userid (i.e., uid), location (i.e., loc), and salary (i.e., sal) for those
employees working in 2018 who earned a salary of $50,000 or more. You may write
the gawk command-line in the space provided below and ensure that this Word
document (with your solutions) is submitted to Canvas.
Answer:

REQUIREMENTS:
• Your sed script and gawk program files should include your name and EUID at the
top of the file. No other comments are needed in these files.
• For the gawk and sed commands, test out your results on real files on our CSE
machines (e.g., cse01, cse02, …, cse06), to make sure that they indeed work.
Your solution to the one-line sed script and gawk program can be typed (or copied
and pasted) to this document and will be submitted to Canvas.
• Your program will be graded based largely on whether it works correctly on the
CSE machines (e.g., cse01, cse02, …, cse06), so you should make sure that
your program runs on a CSE machine. Please include any special instructions
required to run your sed script and gawk program.

• This is an individual programming assignment that must be the sole work of the
individual student. Any instance of academic dishonesty will result in a grade of “F”
for the course, along with a report filed into the Academic Integrity Database.

SUBMISSION:
• You will electronically submit this file with your typed one-line solutions for sed and
gawk along with your sed script minor1.sed and gawk program minor1.gawk
to the Minor 1 dropbox in Canvas by the due date and time.
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