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The document provides examples of Unix/Linux commands for manipulating text files and displaying system information. It includes commands for selecting portions of files, modifying file contents, getting system details, finding and filtering files. A variety of commands are demonstrated for tasks like extracting parts of lines, counting lines, changing case, joining files, sorting output.
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The document provides examples of Unix/Linux commands for manipulating text files and displaying system information. It includes commands for selecting portions of files, modifying file contents, getting system details, finding and filtering files. A variety of commands are demonstrated for tasks like extracting parts of lines, counting lines, changing case, joining files, sorting output.
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[1] display 10th line of a file:
head -10 filename |tail -1
[2] remove the header of the file ?
sed -i ‘1’ filename
Macos: sed -i ‘1’ .bk filename
[3] remove the footer from the file ?
sed -i ‘$d’ filename
[4] command to find the length of a line in a file ?
sed -i ‘$d’ filename
[5] find the length of 10th line in a file ?
sed -n ‘10p’ filename|wc -c
[6] get the nth word of aline ?
Cut -f<n> -d’’
[7] rverse a string ?
Echo “pavan” | rev
[8] get the last word from a line in unix file ?
Echo “unix is good” |rev|cut -f1 -d’’|rev
[9] replace the nth line in a file with a newline
Sed -I’’ ‘10 d’ filename
# d stands for delete sed -I ‘’ ‘10’ new inserted line’
# I stands for insert
[10] check if the last command was successful
Echo $?
[11] command to list all the links from a directory ?
Ls -lrt |grep “^|”
[12] find the operating system you are running ?
Uname -a
[13] create a readonly file
touch filename
chmod 400 filename
[14] how do you see command line history
History
[15] rename the files in a directory with _new as suffix ?
ls -lrt |grep ‘^-‘|awk ‘{print “mv “$9 “$9”.ew”}’|sh
[16] convert string from lower case to upper case
Echo “apple” |tr[-z][A-Z]
Echo “apple” | ‘[:lower:]’ ‘[:upper:]’
[16] convert a string to initcap
echo apple | awk ‘{print toupper(substr($1,1,1))
tolower(substr($1,2))}’
[17] redirect the putput of date command to multiple files
ls -a | grep ‘^\.’
[18] list the hidden files in current directory
Date | tee -a file1 file2 file3
[19] make an existing file empty ?
cat /dev/null > filename
[20] remove the first number on 10th line in file
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[21] join -v : outputs only matched lines between two files
Join -a: in addition to the matched lines, this will output unmatched lines also
[22] display from the 5th character to the end of the line
Cut -c 5- filename
[23] display all the files in current directory sorted by size
Ls -l grep ‘^-‘
[24] display first 10 characters from each line of a file
Cut -c -10 filename
[25] command to remove the first number on all lines that start with @
Sed ‘\,^@,s/[0-9][0-9]*//’ <filename
[26] print filenames in a directory that has the word term
grep -l term *
[27] total number of lines in a file ?
wc -l filename
[28] duplicate empty lines in a file ?
sed ‘/^$/ p’ < filename
[29] iostat, vmstat, netstat
Iostat: reports on terminal, disk and tape i/o activity
Vmstat: reports on virtual memory statistics for processes, disk, tape and cpu activity
Netstat: reports on the contents of network data structures
[30] write contents of 3 files into a single file ?
Cat file1 file2 file3 > file
[31] display the fields in a text file in reverse order ?
awk 'BEGIN {ORS=""} { for (i=NF;i>0;i--) print $i," ";print "\n"}' diliptest
[32] command to find the sum of bytes of all files in the directory ?
ls -l | grep ‘^-‘ | awk ‘BEGIN {sum=0} {sum = sum + $5} END {print sum}’
ls -ltr |grep '^-'| awk 'BEGIN {sum=0} {sum = sum + $5} END {print
sum}'
[33] command to print the lines which end with the word “end” ?
Grep ‘end$’ filename
ls -lrt |grep '^-'|awk '{print $5}'|sort -u|tail -5
[35] remove first 10 lines of a file ?
Sed ‘1,10 d’ < filename
[36] command to duplicate each line in a file
Sed ‘p’ <filename
[37] remove blank lines in a file ?
Grep -v ‘^$’ filename > new_filename
[38] display the processes that were run by yoir username ?
Ps -aef |grep username
[39] display all the files recursively with path under current
directory ?
Find . -depth -print
[40] find zero bytes size files in the current directory ?
find -size 0 -type f
[41] write a command to display the third and fifth character from
each line of a file?
Cut -c 3,5 filename
[42] command to print the fields from 10th to the nd of the line.
The fields in the line are delimited by a comma ?
Cut -d’,’ -f10- filename
[43] replace the word “GUN” with “PEN” in the first 100 lines of a
file ?
Sed ‘1,100 s/GUN/PEN/’ < filename
[44] command to display the lines that do not contain the word
“BLR”?
Grep -v BLR filename
[45] print the squares of numbers from 1 to 10 using awk
command ?
awk ‘BEGIN {for (i=1;i<=10;i++){print “square of”, i, “is”, i*i;}}’
[46] display the files in the dorectory by size ?
ls -l |grep ‘^-’ |sort -nr -k 5
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