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    Linux Questions & Answers – Search Pattern


    This set of Linux / Unix questions and answers focuses on string search operations & pattern
    matching commands. It will be useful for anyone learning Linux Basics, Essentials and/or
    Administration.

    1. Which option of grep displays the line number as well?


    a) -v
    b) -l
    c) -n
    d) -E
    View Answer

    Answer: c
    Explanation: None.

    2. How can you search for blank line in a file?


    a) $ grep “ “ file
    b) $ grep “^$” file
    c) $ grep [“ “] file
    d) $ grep [^$] file
    View Answer

    Answer: b
    Explanation: None.

    3. Assuming the files fileA, fileB, fileAB, fileBC and fileABC, exist in a directory, which files match with
    the pattern file[ABC]?
    a) fileA, fileB and fileABC
    b) fileABC
    c) fileA and fileB
    d) fileAB, fileBC and fileABC
    View Answer

    Answer: c Driving mobility


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    4. What will be printed for the command below?


    $ grep –c “^echo” abc
    a) The count of lines that do not contain the pattern echo in file abc
    b) The count of lines which begin with the pattern echo in file abc
    c) The count of lines that ends with the pattern echo in file abc
    d) None of the mentioned
    View Answer

    Answer: b
    Explanation: None.

    5. Which one is used to select only one copy of the repeated lines?
    a) uniq -u
    b) uniq -d
    c) uniq -c
    d) uniq –I
    View Answer

    Answer: a
    Explanation: None.

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    6. Indicate the right option to search for BOB, Bob, BOb or BoB?
    a) grep –i Bob files
    b) grep ‘B[oO][bB]’ files
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    c) grep ‘[BOB]’ files


    d) grep -v ‘Bob’ files
    View Answer

    Answer: b
    Explanation: None.

    7. Indicate the right option to search for anything not a letter or number
    a) grep ‘^[a-zA-Z0-9]’
    b) grep ‘[^a-zA-Z0-9]’
    c) grep ‘[a-zA-Z0-9]’
    d) None of the mentioned
    View Answer

    Answer: b
    Explanation: None.

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    8. How do you remove duplicate lines from the file foo using uniq?
    a) sort foo | uniq –u
    b) sort -u foo | uniq -d
    c) sort foo | uniq –c
    d) sort foo | uniq –I
    View Answer

    Answer: a
    Explanation: None.

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    9. One of the entry of /etc/passwd file is shown below:


    user1:x:1111:2222:Sanfoundry:/home/user1:/bin/bash
    Which among the following will print userid and home dir in the following pattern
    “user1:/home/user1”
    a) awk `{print $1 “:” $6}` /etc/passwd
    b) awk `{print $1 “:” $7}` /etc/passwd
    c) awk `{print $2 “:” $6}` /etc/passwd
    d) awk `{print $2 “:” $7}` /etc/passwd
    View Answer

    Answer: a
    Explanation: None.

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    10. who | cut –d ” ” -f1


    what is the ouput if the who command displays like this
    user1 tty 0 1234
    a) user1
    b) user1 tty 0 1234
    c) tty
    d) tty 0 1234
    View Answer

    Answer: a
    Explanation: None.

    11. What is the command that can print lines of first file matching with second file?
    a) printline
    b) cmp
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    c) com
    d) comm
    View Answer

    Answer: d
    Explanation: None.

    12. Which character to use to escape meaning of special characters in search operations?
    a) []
    b) ^
    c) .
    d) backslash (\)
    View Answer

    Answer: d
    Explanation: We can use backslash character to escape the meaning of special characters in
    search. For example: grep ‘\.’ a.txt OR grep ‘\*’ a.txt OR grep ‘\^’ a.txt will search for fullstop (.),
    asterisk (*) or caret (^) characters respectively in the file a.txt

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