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Bash Shell Scripting- Commands to read a file content with conditions

Bash Shell Scripting- Commands to read a file content with conditions

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Interactive Video

Information Technology (IT), Architecture, Social Studies

University

Practice Problem

Hard

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The video tutorial explains how to read file content conditionally using the 'more', 'head', and 'tail' commands. It covers the basic usage of each command, including default and custom options for displaying specific lines from a file. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of 'head' and 'tail' commands in shell scripting, while 'more' is useful for command line file reading.

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5 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the primary function of the 'more' command when reading a file?

To delete the file content

To edit the file content

To display the file content page by page

To display the entire file at once

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How can you start reading a file from the 4th line using the 'more' command?

more 4 filename

more +4 filename

more -4 filename

more filename 4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the default number of lines displayed by the 'head' command?

20 lines

5 lines

10 lines

15 lines

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which command would you use to display the last 10 lines of a file by default?

grep

head

more

tail

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How can you customize the 'tail' command to display the last 4 lines of a file?

tail -4 filename

tail 4 filename

tail filename 4

tail +4 filename

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