adplus-dvertising
frame-decoration

Question

____ command is used for sorting a file on specified fields.

a.

cut

b.

sort

c.

pr

d.

tail

Posted under UNIX

Answer: (b).sort

Engage with the Community - Add Your Comment

Confused About the Answer? Ask for Details Here.

Know the Explanation? Add it Here.

Q. ____ command is used for sorting a file on specified fields.

Similar Questions

Discover Related MCQs

Q. The name of the input and output files cannot be same while using sort command.

Q. Which command is used for locating repeated and non-repeated lines?

Q. uniq command requires a sorted file as input.

Q. Which option is used with uniq command for selecting non-repeated lines?

Q. Which one of the following command is used for searching for a pattern in one or more file(s)?

Q. Which one of the following is the correct syntax for grep command?

Q. Which one of the following command will be used for searching “director” in emp.lst?

Q. When the pattern is not found in a file, grep command silently returns the prompt.

Q. grep command can be used for searching a pattern in more than one file.

Q. Which of the following is not a subset of BRE (basic regular expression) character subset?

Q. Which of the following commands is known as stream editor?

Q. What is the correct syntax for using sed?

Q. Which one of the following command will be used for quitting after selecting 3 lines from file emp.lst?

Q. Which of the following command is used with sed for outputting as well as printing the selected lines?

Q. To suppress the behaviour of ‘p’ command, we use ____ option.

Q. The command $ sed -n ‘$p’ emp.lst will display the last line.

Q. Consider the following commands.

$ sed -n ‘1,2p’ emp.lst
$ sed -n ‘3,$!p’ emp.lst

The output of both commands will be same.

Q. Which option is used with sed for using multiple instructions?

Q. ____ option is used for taking instructions from a file.

Q. sed can also perform the substitution.