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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions individual-shell-tools/awk/script-01.sh
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# TODO: Write a command to output just the names of each player in `scores-table.txt`.
# Your output should contain 6 lines, each with just one word on it.
awk '{print $1}' "$(dirname "$0")"/scores-table.txt
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# TODO: Write a command to output the names of each player, as well as their city.
# Your output should contain 6 lines, each with two words on it, separated by a space.
awk '{print $1, $2}' "$(dirname "$0")"/scores-table.txt
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# TODO: Write a command to output just the names of each player along with the score from their first attempt.
# Your output should contain 6 lines, each with one word and one number on it.
# The first line should be "Ahmed 1".
awk '{print $1, $3}' "$(dirname "$0")"/scores-table.txt
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# TODO: Write a command to output just the names of each player in London along with the score from their last attempt.
# Your output should contain 3 lines, each with one word and one number on it.
# The first line should be "Ahmed 4".
awk '/London/ {print $1, $NF}' "$(dirname "$0")"/scores-table.txt
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions individual-shell-tools/awk/script-05.sh
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# TODO: Write a command to output just the names of each player along with the number of times they've played the game.
# Your output should contain 6 lines, each with one word and one number on it.
# The first line should be "Ahmed 3".
awk '{ name = $1; plays = NF - 2; print name, plays}' "$(dirname "$0")"/scores-table.txt
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# TODO: Write a command to output the total of adding together all players' first scores.
# Your output should be exactly the number 54.
awk '{ total += $3 } END { print total }' "$(dirname "$0")"/scores-table.txt
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# TODO: Write a command to output just the names of each player along with the total of adding all of that player's scores.
# Your output should contain 6 lines, each with one word and one number on it.
# The first line should be "Ahmed 15". The second line should be "Basia 37"
awk '{ name = $1; total = 0;
for (i = 3; i <= NF; i++)
total += $i;
print name, total
}' "$(dirname "$0")"/scores-table.txt
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions individual-shell-tools/cat/script-01.sh
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# TODO: Write a command to output the contents of the helper-1.txt file inside the helper-files directory to the terminal.
# The output of this command should be "Once upon a time...".
cat /home/luke/CYF/SDC/Module-Tools/individual-shell-tools/helper-files/helper-1.txt
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# It looked delicious.
# I was tempted to take a bite of it.
# But this seemed like a bad idea...
cat "$(dirname "$0")"/../helper-files/*.txt

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# 1 It looked delicious.
# 2 I was tempted to take a bite of it.
# 3 But this seemed like a bad idea...
cat -n "$(dirname "$0")"/../helper-files/helper-3.txt
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# 3 It looked delicious.
# 4 I was tempted to take a bite of it.
# 5 But this seemed like a bad idea...
cat -n "$(dirname "$0")"/../helper-files/*.txt
2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions individual-shell-tools/grep/script-01.sh
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# TODO: Write a command to output every line in dialogue.txt said by the Doctor.
# The output should contain 6 lines.

grep "^Doctor:" "$(dirname "$0")"/dialogue.txt
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# TODO: Write a command to output every line in dialogue.txt that contains the word Doctor (regardless of case).
# The output should contain 9 lines.
grep -i "Doctor" "$(dirname "$0")"/dialogue.txt

#
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# TODO: Write a command to output the number of lines in dialogue.txt that contain the word Doctor (regardless of case).
# The output should be exactly the number 9.
grep -ic "Doctor" "$(dirname "$0")"/dialogue.txt

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# TODO: Write a command to output every line in dialogue.txt that does not contain the word "Hello" (regardless of case).
# The output should contain 10 lines.
grep -iv "Hello" "$(dirname "$0")"/dialogue.txt
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# TODO: Write a command to output every line in dialogue.txt that contains the string "cure", as well as the line before that line.
# The output should contain two pairs of two lines of text (with a separator between them).
grep -B 1 "cure" "$(dirname "$0")"/dialogue.txt

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# TODO: Write a command to output the name of every `.txt` file in this directory which contains a line of dialogue said by the Doctor.
# The output should contain two filenames.
grep -l "Doctor:" "$(dirname "$0")"/*.txt | while IFS= read -r filepath; do
basename "$filepath"
done
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# TODO: Write a command to output, for each `.txt` file in this directory, how many lines of dialogue the Doctor has.
# The output should show that dialogue.txt contains 6 lines, dialogue-2.txt contains 2, and dialogue-3.txt contains 0.
grep -c '^Doctor:' "$(dirname "$0")"/*.txt | while IFS=: read -r file count; do
echo "$(basename "$file") contains $count lines"
done
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# TODO: Write a command to list the files and folders in this directory.
# The output should be a list of names including child-directory, script-01.sh, script-02.sh, and more.
cd /home/luke/CYF/SDC/Module-Tools/individual-shell-tools/ls
ls
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# TODO: Write a command which lists all of the files in the directory named child-directory.
# The output should be a list of names: helper-1.txt, helper-2.txt, helper-3.txt.
cd /home/luke/CYF/SDC/Module-Tools/individual-shell-tools/ls/child-directory
ls
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# TODO: Write a command which _recursively_ lists all of the files and folders in this directory _and_ all of the files inside those folders.
# The output should be a list of names including: child-directory, script-01.sh, helper-1.txt (and more).
# The formatting of the output doesn't matter.
cd /home/luke/CYF/SDC/Module-Tools/individual-shell-tools/ls
ls -R
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# TODO: Write a command which lists the files in the child-directory directory, one per line, sorted so that the most recently modified file is first.
# The output should be a list of names in this order, one per line: helper-3.txt, helper-1.txt, helper-2.txt.

cd "${script_dir}/child-directory" && ls -t

echo "Second exercise (sorted oldest to newest):"

# TODO: Write a command which does the same as above, but sorted in the opposite order (oldest first).
# The output should be a list of names in this order, one per line: helper-2.txt, helper-1.txt, helper-3.txt.
ls -tr
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# TODO: Write a command to output input.txt with all occurrences of the letter `i` replaced with `I`.
# The output should contain 11 lines.
# The first line of the output should be: "ThIs Is a sample fIle for experImentIng with sed.".
sed 's/i/I/g' "$(dirname "$0")/input.txt" | while IFS= read -r line; do
echo "$line"
done

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# TODO: Write a command to output input.txt with numbers removed.
# The output should contain 11 lines.
# Line 6 of the output should be " Alisha".
sed 's/[0-9]//g' "$(dirname "$0")"/input.txt
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# TODO: Write a command to output input.txt removing any line which contains a number.
# The output should contain 6 lines.
sed '/[0-9]/d' "$(dirname "$0")"/input.txt

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# TODO: Write a command to output input.txt replacing every occurrence of the string "We'll" with "We will".
# The output should contain 11 lines.
sed 's/We'\''ll/We will/g' "$(dirname "$0")"/input.txt
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# If a line starts with a number and a space, make the line instead end with a space and the number.
# So line 6 which currently reads "37 Alisha" should instead read "Alisha 37".
# The output should contain 11 lines.
sed -E 's/^([0-9]+) (.*)/\2 \1/' "$(dirname "$0")"/input.txt

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# The output should contain 11 lines.
# Line 3 should be "It contains many lines, and there are some things you may want to do with each of them.".
# Line 11 should be "We also should remember, when we go shopping, to get 4 items: oranges, cheese, bread, olives.".
sed -E 's/,([^ ])/,\ \1/g' "$(dirname "$0")"/input.txt


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# TODO: Write a command to output the number of words in the file helper-files/helper-3.txt.
# The output should include the number 19. The output should not include the number 92.
wc -w "$(dirname "$0")"/../helper-files/helper-3.txt | awk '{print $1}'
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# TODO: Write a command to output the number of lines in the file helper-files/helper-3.txt.
# The output should include the number 3. The output should not include the number 19.
wc -l "$(dirname "$0")"/../helper-files/helper-3.txt | awk '{print $1}'
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# 1 7 39 ../helper-files/helper-2.txt
# 3 19 92 ../helper-files/helper-3.txt
# 5 30 151 total
wc -lwm "$(dirname "$0")"/../helper-files/*.txt
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Please ensure that you only include shell tools exercises within this PR :)

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The goal of these exercises is for you to gain an intuition for binary numbers. Using tools to solve the problems defeats the point.

Convert the decimal number 14 to binary.
Answer:
Answer: 1110

Convert the binary number 101101 to decimal:
Answer:
Answer: 45

Which is larger: 1000 or 0111?
Answer:
Answer: 1000

Which is larger: 00100 or 01011?
Answer:
Answer: 01011

What is 10101 + 01010?
Answer:
Answer: 11111

What is 10001 + 10001?
Answer:
Answer: 100010

What's the largest number you can store with 4 bits, if you want to be able to represent the number 0?
Answer:
What's the largest number you can store with 4 bits, if you want to be able to represent the number 0?
Answer: 15

How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 255 inclusive?
Answer:
Answer: 8 bits

How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 3 inclusive?
Answer:
Answer: 2 bits

How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 1000 inclusive?
Answer:
Answer: 10 bits

How can you test if a binary number is a power of two (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...)?
Answer:
Answer: by using the bitwise formula (N & (N - 1)) == 0

Convert the decimal number 14 to hex.
Answer:
Answer: E

Convert the decimal number 386 to hex.
Answer:
Answer: 0x182

Convert the hex number 386 to decimal.
Answer:
Answer: 902

Convert the hex number B to decimal.
Answer:
Answer: 11

If reading the byte 0x21 as a number, what decimal number would it mean?
Answer:
Answer: 33

If reading the byte 0x21 as an ASCII character, what character would it mean?
Answer:
Answer: !

If reading the byte 0x21 as a greyscale colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean?
Answer:
Answer: A dark grey shade

If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as an RGB colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean?
Answer:
Answer: Purple

If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as a sequence of three one-byte decimal numbers, what decimal numbers would they be?
Answer:
Answer: 170, 0, 255