Question

Run the commands used for following tasks and paste the screen shots here:

a) Search/find a specified word in a file and display all the lines containing that word.

b) List all the files and directories in the current directory (including the hidden files).

c) Change to the root directory / and show a complete long listing of it.

d) Append the output of file1 to file2. [1 Mark] e) Count how many lines, words and characters in file1.

f) Create, copy, append and display the content of a file.

Answer 1

I created two files named file1.txt and file2.txt.

The contents of file1.txt are:

The contents of file2.txt are:

a) grep -i "word" file name will print  the lines that the word contains in a file

b)List all files and directories in a current directory including hidden files.

command : ls -a

c)change to root directory / and show a complete long listing of it.

commands used :

To change to root directory : cd /

For long listing: ls -al

d) Append the output of file1 to file2:

command used: cat file1.txt>>file2.txt

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