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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions awk questions using sort and grep Post 302921595 by Aia on Saturday 18th of October 2014 05:57:31 PM
Old 10-18-2014
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13)Create 4 files with the suffix .txt in your home directory. Create a sub-directory. Using awk and the UNIX shell move all of the .txt files to the
sub-directory.
...
Question 13 No clue.
touch is the command that you can use to create the files.
mkdir the sub-dir
pipe a name list of the 4 .txt files using something like ls to awk and sh

It is unusual to use awk for this, but since it looks that it is focus on piping, here's a clue

Code:
ls *.txt | awk '{print "ls -l", $0} | sh

 

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NAME

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