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Unix Important Command

The document lists important UNIX commands for various tasks, including displaying specific lines from files, counting characters and words, deleting special characters, and sorting lines. It also covers commands for process management, file manipulation, and searching for patterns within files. Each command is accompanied by its syntax and relevant years of usage.

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Unix Important Command

The document lists important UNIX commands for various tasks, including displaying specific lines from files, counting characters and words, deleting special characters, and sorting lines. It also covers commands for process management, file manipulation, and searching for patterns within files. Each command is accompanied by its syntax and relevant years of usage.

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UNIX IMPORTANT COMMAND

1 Display line 1 to 5 from file x1. [2015]


sed –n ‘1,5p’ x1
2 Display last word of each line from file x1. [2015]
awk ‘{print $NF}’ x1
3 To count number of character in first 3 line of file x1. [2015,2016(2)]
sed –n ‘1,3p’ x1| echo "total characters=" `wc -c`
4 To count number of words in line 40 thought 60 of file x1. [2015,2016]
sed –n ‘40,60p’ x1| echo "total words=" `wc -w`
5 To delete all special character from file f1.txt. [2015,16,17]
tr -cd '[:alnum:]\ \n' < f1.txt
6 Display all lines those stats with 'let' from a file x1. And the letter l, e or t
may be in any case. [2015]
grep -i ^let x1
7 To print first 7 lines from file. [2014(2),2016,17]
sed –n ‘1,7p’ x1
Starting from 10th line to the end of file x1. [2017]
sed -n '10,$p' x1
8 To sort a line of file and also remove a repeated line. [2014,2016,17]
sort –u x1
9 Replace all occurrences of 'TYBCA' IN STUDLST. [2018]
sed 's/ TYBCA / BCA /g' x1
OR
Replace all occurrences of 'SYBCA' with 'TYBCA' in 5th line of file f1.txt.
[2017]
sed 5's/ SYBCA / TYBCA /g' x1
10 To run utility x1 at 9:00 AM. [2014,17]
$ at 9:00
at> echo "It works!" > test.txt
at> Ctrl+D
job 1 at Fri Nov 20 11:27:00 2024
11 to display no of processes. [2016(2),2017]
ps aux
Here's a breakdown of the command:
ps: is the process status command.
a: displays information about other users' processes as well as your own.
u: displays the processes belonging to the specified usernames.
x: includes processes that do not have a controlling terminal.

12 To display lines end with 'India'. [2014,2017


grep India$ f1
13 To display lines start with “The”. [2014]
grep ^The f1
14 To locate/find the 'Unix' ignoring case. [2014,17]
grep –i “unix” f1
15 Remove duplicate lines from file x1. [2016,2018]
Sort –u x1 or
Uniq x1
16 Display all files in current directory where the 1st character is not digit.
[2016,17, 2018]
ls |grep "^[^0-9]"
Display all files in current directory where the 1st character or any
character is digit
ls -d1 [0-9]* or ls *[[:digit:]]* or ls *[0-9]*
[ls -d abc* # list all files starting with abc---
ls -d *abc* # list all files containing --abc--
ls -d *abc # list all files ending with --abc]
16 OR count no of character in last line of file. [2018]
tail -1|echo “Total character”`wc –c`
17 Remove a file forcible which do not have write permission. [2016, 2018]
rm –f f1
18 Display all files in current directory where the 1st character is numeric
and last character is not alphabet. [2017]
ls | grep -e "^[0-9$]"
19 Display content of last modified file. [2017]
ls -lt | head -n 2
20 Display content of top 3 largest file in a working directory. [2017]
ls -Sl|head -4
21 display i-node number of all files of current directory. [2017]
ls -i
22 Link three files [2022]

ln f1 f2; ln f1 f3
23 List attributes of the current directory [2022]

ls -l
24 To print the files in the current directory and one level down to the
current directory. [2022]

cd ..;ls
25 To locate all the lines where 1st and last characters are same. [2022]

grep '^a.*a$' f1
or
grep -E "^a.*a$" f1
26 Write a command using grep or sed or awk to display line 5 to 15, 25 to
35 and last line of file f1.[2021]

sed –ne ‘5,15p’ –e ‘25,35p’ –e ‘$p’ f1


or
sed -ne '5,15p
> 25,35p
> $p' f1
27 Write a command to count number of characters in first five lines of file
x1. [2021]

sed –n ‘1,5p’ x1 |echo “Total character =”`wc –c`

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