Question 3. (20 marks) Write a short but well structured Bash script that, given

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Question 3. (20 marks) Write a short but well structured Bash script that, given the name of a file as an command line argument, reads the file name and creates a new file containing only those lines in which there is a single English word (could be a number or punctuation mark). Here is an example of the input file. This is a special text file There are 60 students enrolled in this course. TAB][SPACE] Nearly half of that number of students are in the Faculty of HES The rest of them are from Faculty-of-BLA. Note: 1. Well structured' means the script must have the error checking and robustness checking. 2. The composite word linked by dash is regraded as one word.

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#input file from commandline

inputfile=$1

#reading input file line by line

while read LINE
do

#counting words in a line

STRLENGTH=`echo -n $LINE | wc -w`
if [[ STRLENGTH -eq 1 ]]
echo $LINE >>"newFile.txt"
done <$inputfile

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