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Mastering Linux Shell Scripting

You're reading from   Mastering Linux Shell Scripting A practical guide to Linux command-line, Bash scripting, and Shell programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788990554
Length 284 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mokhtar Ebrahim Mokhtar Ebrahim
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Andrew Mallett Andrew Mallett
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The What and Why of Scripting with Bash FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Interactive Scripts 3. Conditions Attached 4. Creating Code Snippets 5. Alternative Syntax 6. Iterating with Loops 7. Creating Building Blocks with Functions 8. Introducing the Stream Editor 9. Automating Apache Virtual Hosts 10. AWK Fundamentals 11. Regular Expressions 12. Summarizing Logs with AWK 13. A Better lastlog with AWK 14. Using Python as a Bash Scripting Alternative 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 11

  1. 0 lines

Because there is a period after the word awesome, if you want to print that line, you can use the following command:

$ awk '/awesome\.$/{print $0}' myfile
  1. 2 lines

Since we search for the line that contains the word scripting. With a period after it followed by any text, this pattern only exists in two lines because the third line doesn't contain a period after the word.

  1. 3 lines

As we used the question mark that means the character class is not a must for the pattern to match.

  1. Nothing

As we used the pipe symbol, which is an ERE character, and as we used sed, we must use the -r option for sed to turn the extended engine on.

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