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Shell Redirections Tasks

The document provides instructions for completing tasks in the 0x02-shell_redirections directory. It explains how to create the directory and README file, then lists 22 tasks that involve writing bash scripts using I/O redirections and other commands like echo, cat, head, tail, grep, cut, and tr. The tasks range from printing strings to filtering and sorting file contents. Advanced tasks involve using commands like find, sort, paste, and cut to manipulate file metadata and contents.

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Shell Redirections Tasks

The document provides instructions for completing tasks in the 0x02-shell_redirections directory. It explains how to create the directory and README file, then lists 22 tasks that involve writing bash scripts using I/O redirections and other commands like echo, cat, head, tail, grep, cut, and tr. The tasks range from printing strings to filtering and sorting file contents. Advanced tasks involve using commands like find, sort, paste, and cut to manipulate file metadata and contents.

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Wassup guys

for the 0x02-shell_redirections tasks

cd alx-system_engineering-devops

mkdir 0x02-shell_redirections

cd 0x02-shell_redirections

echo 'Shell I/O redirections' > README.md

TASK 0

vi 0-hello_world

{click "i" to enter insert mode}

#!/bin/bash

echo "Hello, World"

{click esc to re-enter command mode}

:wq

TASK 1

vi 1-confused_smiley

#!/bin/bash

echo "\"(Ôo)'"

:wq

TASK 2

1
vi 2-hellofile

#!/bin/bash

cat /etc/passwd

:wq

TASK 3

vi 3-twofiles

#!/bin/bash

cat /etc/passwd /etc/hosts

:wq

TASK 4

vi 4-lastlines

#!/bin/bash

tail /etc/passwd

:wq

TASK 5

vi 5-firstlines

#!/bin/bash

head -10 /etc/passwd

:wq

TASK 6

2
vi 6-third_line

#!/bin/bash

head --lines=3 iacta | tail --lines=1

:wq

TASK 7

vi 7-file

#!/bin/bash

echo "Best School" > \\\*\\\\\'\"Best\ School\"\\\'\\\\\*\$\\\?\\\*\\\*\\\*\\\*\\\*\:\)

:wq

TASK 8

vi 8-cwd_state

#!/bin/bash

ls -la >> ls_cwd_content

:wq

TASK 9

vi 9-duplicate_last_line

#!/bin/bash

tail --lines=1 iacta >> iacta

:wq

TASK 10

3
vi 10-no_more_js

#!/bin/bash

find . -type f -name '*.js' -delete

:wq

TASK 11

vi 11-directories

#!/bin/bash

find . -type d -path './*' -print | wc -l

:wq

TASK 12

vi 12-newest_files

#!/bin/bash

ls -t | head

:wq

TASK 13

vi 13-unique

#!/bin/bash

sort | uniq -u

:wq

TASK 14

4
vi 14-findthatword

#!/bin/bash

grep -i "root" /etc/passwd

:wq

TASK 15

vi 15-countthatword

#!/bin/bash

grep -c "bin" /etc/passwd

:wq

TASK 16

vi 16-whatsnext

#!/bin/bash

grep -iA 3 "root" /etc/passwd

:wq

TASK 17

vi 17-hidethisword

#!/bin/bash

grep -v "bin" /etc/passwd

:wq

TASK 18

5
vi 18-letteronly

#!/bin/bash

grep '^[A-Za-z]' /etc/ssh/sshd_config

:wq

TASK 19

vi 19-AZ

#!/bin/bash

tr Ac Ze

:wq

TASK 20

vi 20-hiago

#!/bin/bash

tr -d cC

:wq

TASK 21

vi 21-reverse

#!/bin/bash

rev

:wq

TASK 22

6
vi 22-users_and_homes

#!/bin/bash

cut -d':' -f1,6 /etc/passwd | sort

:wq

ADVANCED TASK 1

vi 100-empty_casks

#!/bin/bash

find . -empty -printf %f'\n'

:wq

ADVANCED TASK 2

vi 101-gifs

#!/bin/bash

find . -type f -name \*.gif -printf "%f\n" | LC_ALL=C sort -f | rev | cut -b 5- | rev

:wq

ADVANCED TASK 3

vi 102-acrostic

#!/bin/bash

cut -c 1 | paste -s -d ''

:wq

ADVANCED TASK 4

7
vi 103-the_biggest_fan

#!/bin/bash

tail -n +2 | cut -f -1 | sort -k 1 | uniq -c | sort -rnk 1 | head -n 11 | rev | cut -d ' ' -f -1 | rev

:wq

N.B: do not forget to run the chmod u+x command for the files

and remember you can use it for multiples files at a time. e.g

chmod u+x 0-hello_world 1-confused_smiley 2-hellofile e.t.c

ElFaruq

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