For each of questions 8 to 15, describe what UNIX command (or series of commands

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For each of questions 8 to 15, describe what UNIX command (or series of commands) you would have to enter in order to perform the required operation: 8. Delete a file called doc1. Rename the file compA1 to be compAl.txt. Show the contents of the/gator/faculty directory. Sort the contents of the text file called websites. Create a directory called school and subdirectories econ and info. Find the name of the user whose user name is hfor1234 Delete all the files in a directory called dir1, and also the directory. Move all the files with names starting with asst into a new directory 10. 12. 13. 14 15. called assignments.

Explanation / Answer

Q8: rm -f doc1

Q9: mv compA1 compA1.txt

Q10: ls -l /gator/faculty/*

Q11: sort websites -o websites

Q12: mkdir -p school/{econ,info}

Q13: getent passwd | grep hfor1234 | awk -F: '{print $5}' | awk -F, '{print $1}'

Description - retrieves the related entry from /etc/passwd and then parses the line, to retrieve the user's name

Q14: rm -fr dir1

Q15: mkdir assignments && find asst* -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec mv {} assignments/ ;

Desc: First, create the target directory and then find only the files in the current directory that start with asst and move then to assignments folder.

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