Exercise related files are available from exercises folder of learn_ruby_oneliners repo.
a) For the input file ip.txt, display all lines containing is.
$ cat ip.txt
Hello World
How are you
This game is good
Today is sunny
12345
You are funny
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This game is good
Today is sunnyb) For the input file ip.txt, display first field of lines not containing y. Consider space as the field separator for this file.
##### add your solution here
Hello
This
12345c) For the input file ip.txt, display all lines containing no more than 2 fields.
##### add your solution here
Hello World
12345d) For the input file ip.txt, display all lines containing is in the second field.
##### add your solution here
Today is sunnye) For each line of the input file ip.txt, replace first occurrence of o with 0.
##### add your solution here
Hell0 World
H0w are you
This game is g0od
T0day is sunny
12345
Y0u are funnyf) For the input file table.txt, calculate and display the product of numbers in the last field of each line. Consider space as the field separator for this file.
$ cat table.txt
brown bread mat hair 42
blue cake mug shirt -7
yellow banana window shoes 3.14
##### add your solution here
-923.1600000000001g) Append . to all the input lines for the given stdin data.
$ printf 'last\nappend\nstop\n' | ##### add your solution here
last.
append.
stop.h) Use contents of s variable to display all matching lines from the input file ip.txt. Assume that s doesn't have any regexp metacharacters. Construct the solution such that there's at least one word character immediately preceding the contents of s variable.
$ s='is'
##### add your solution here
This game is goodi) Use system to display contents of filename present in second field (space separated) of the given input line.
$ s='report.log ip.txt sorted.txt'
$ echo "$s" | ##### add your solution here
Hello World
How are you
This game is good
Today is sunny
12345
You are funny
$ s='power.txt table.txt'
$ echo "$s" | ##### add your solution here
brown bread mat hair 42
blue cake mug shirt -7
yellow banana window shoes 3.14a) Remove only the third line of given input.
$ seq 34 37 | ##### add your solution here
34
35
37b) Display only fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh lines for the given input.
$ seq 65 78 | ##### add your solution here
68
69
70
71c) For the input file ip.txt, replace all occurrences of are with are not and is with is not only from line number 4 till end of file. Also, only the lines that were changed should be displayed in the output.
$ cat ip.txt
Hello World
How are you
This game is good
Today is sunny
12345
You are funny
##### add your solution here
Today is not sunny
You are not funnyd) For the given stdin, display only the first three lines. Avoid processing lines that are not relevant.
$ seq 14 25 | ##### add your solution here
14
15
16e) For the input file ip.txt, display all lines from start of the file till the first occurrence of game.
##### add your solution here
Hello World
How are you
This game is goodf) For the input file ip.txt, display all lines that contain is but not good.
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Today is sunnyg) For the input file ip.txt, extract the word before the whole word is as well as the word after it. If such a match is found, display the two words around is in reversed order. For example, hi;1 is--234 bye should be converted to 234:1. Assume that whole word is will not be present more than once in a single line.
##### add your solution here
good:game
sunny:Todayh) For the given input string, replace 0xA0 with 0x7F and 0xC0 with 0x1F.
$ s='start address: 0xA0, func1 address: 0xC0'
$ echo "$s" | ##### add your solution here
start address: 0x7F, func1 address: 0x1Fi) For the input file text.txt, replace all occurrences of in with an and write back the changes to text.txt itself. The original contents should get saved to text.txt.orig
$ cat text.txt
can ran want plant
tin fin fit mine line
##### add your solution here
$ cat text.txt
can ran want plant
tan fan fit mane lane
$ cat text.txt.orig
can ran want plant
tin fin fit mine linej) For the input file text.txt, replace all occurrences of an with in and write back the changes to text.txt itself. Do not create backups for this exercise. Note that you should have solved the previous exercise before starting this one.
$ cat text.txt
can ran want plant
tan fan fit mane lane
##### add your solution here
$ cat text.txt
cin rin wint plint
tin fin fit mine line
$ diff text.txt text.txt.orig
1c1
< cin rin wint plint
---
> can ran want plantk) Find the starting index of first occurrence of is or the or was or to for each input line of the file idx.txt. Assume all input lines will match at least one of these terms.
$ cat idx.txt
match after the last newline character
and then you want to test
this is good bye then
you were there to see?
##### add your solution here
12
4
2
9l) Display all lines containing [4]* for the given stdin data.
$ printf '2.3/[4]*6\n2[4]5\n5.3-[4]*9\n' | ##### add your solution here
2.3/[4]*6
5.3-[4]*9m) For the given input string, replace all lowercase alphabets to x only for words starting with m.
$ s='ma2T3a a2p kite e2e3m meet'
$ echo "$s" | ##### add your solution here
xx2T3x a2p kite e2e3m xxxxn) For the input file ip.txt, delete all characters other than lowercase vowels and newline character. Perform this transformation only between a line containing you up to line number 4 (inclusive).
##### add your solution here
Hello World
oaeou
iaeioo
oaiu
12345
You are funnya) Extract only the contents between () or )( from each input line. Assume that () characters will be present only once every line.
$ cat brackets.txt
foo blah blah(ice) 123 xyz$
(almond-pista) choco
yo )yoyo( yo
##### add your solution here
ice
almond-pista
yoyob) For the input file scores.csv, extract Name and Physics fields in the format shown below.
$ cat scores.csv
Name,Maths,Physics,Chemistry
Blue,67,46,99
Lin,78,83,80
Er,56,79,92
Cy,97,98,95
Ort,68,72,66
Ith,100,100,100
##### add your solution here
Name:Physics
Blue:46
Lin:83
Er:79
Cy:98
Ort:72
Ith:100c) For the input file scores.csv, display names of those who've scored above 70 in Maths.
##### add your solution here
Lin
Cy
Ithd) Display the number of word characters for the given inputs. Word definition here is same as used in regular expressions. Can you construct a solution with gsub and one without substitution functions?
$ # solve using gsub
$ echo 'hi there' | ##### add your solution here
7
$ # solve without using substitution functions
$ echo 'u-no;co%."(do_12:as' | ##### add your solution here
12e) Construct a solution that works for both the given sample inputs and the corresponding output shown.
$ s1='1 "grape" and "mango" and "guava"'
$ s2='("a 1""d""c-2""b")'
$ echo "$s1" | ##### add your solution here
"grape","guava","mango"
$ echo "$s2" | ##### add your solution here
"a 1","b","c-2","d"f) Display only the third and fifth characters from each input line.
$ printf 'restore\ncat one\ncricket' | ##### add your solution here
so
to
ikg) Transform the given input file fw.txt to get the output as shown below. If second field is empty (i.e. contains only space characters), replace it with NA.
$ cat fw.txt
1.3 rs 90 0.134563
3.8 6
5.2 ye 8.2387
4.2 kt 32 45.1
##### add your solution here
1.3,rs,0.134563
3.8,NA,6
5.2,ye,8.2387
4.2,kt,45.1h) For the input file scores.csv, display the header as well as any row which contains b or t (irrespective of case) in the first field.
##### add your solution here
Name,Maths,Physics,Chemistry
Blue,67,46,99
Ort,68,72,66
Ith,100,100,100i) Extract all whole words that contains 42 but not at the edge of a word. Assume a word cannot contain 42 more than once.
$ s='hi42bye nice1423 bad42 cool_42a 42fake'
$ echo "$s" | ##### add your solution here
hi42bye
nice1423
cool_42aj) For the input file scores.csv, add another column named GP which is calculated out of 100 by giving 50% weightage to Maths and 25% each for Physics and Chemistry.
##### add your solution here
Name,Maths,Physics,Chemistry,GP
Blue,67,46,99,69.75
Lin,78,83,80,79.75
Er,56,79,92,70.75
Cy,97,98,95,96.75
Ort,68,72,66,68.5
Ith,100,100,100,100.0k) For the input file mixed_fs.txt, retain only first two fields from each input line. The input and output field separators should be space for first two lines and , for the rest of the lines.
$ cat mixed_fs.txt
rose lily jasmine tulip
pink blue white yellow
car,mat,ball,basket
light green,brown,black,purple
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rose lily
pink blue
car,mat
light green,brownl) For the given space separated numbers, filter only numbers in the range 20 to 1000 (inclusive).
$ echo '20 -983 5 756 634223' | ##### add your solution here
20 756m) For the given space separated words, randomize the order of characters for each word.
$ s='this is a sample sentence'
$ # sample randomized output shown here, could be different for you
$ echo "$s" | ##### add your solution here
shti si a salemp sneentcen) For the given input file words.txt, filter all lines containing characters in ascending and descending order.
$ cat words.txt
bot
art
are
boat
toe
flee
reed
$ # ascending order
##### add your solution here
bot
art
$ # descending order
##### add your solution here
toe
reedo) For the given space separated words, extract the three longest words.
$ s='I bought two bananas and three mangoes'
$ echo "$s" | ##### add your solution here
mangoes
bananas
boughtp) Convert the contents of split.txt as shown below.
$ cat split.txt
apple,1:2:5,mango
wry,4,look
pencil,3:8,paper
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apple,1,mango
apple,2,mango
apple,5,mango
wry,4,look
pencil,3,paper
pencil,8,papera) The input file jumbled.txt consists of words separated by various delimiters. Display all words that contain an or at or in or it, one per line.
$ cat jumbled.txt
overcoats;furrowing-typeface%pewter##hobby
wavering:concession/woof\retailer
##### add your solution here
overcoats
furrowing
waveringb) Emulate paste -sd, with ruby.
$ # this command joins all input lines with ',' character
$ paste -sd, ip.txt
Hello World,How are you,This game is good,Today is sunny,12345,You are funny
$ # make sure there's no ',' at end of the line
$ # and that there's a newline character at the end of the line
##### add your solution here
Hello World,How are you,This game is good,Today is sunny,12345,You are funny
$ # if there's only one line in input, again make sure there's no trailing ','
$ # and that there's a newline character at the end of the line
$ printf 'foo' | paste -sd,
foo
$ printf 'foo' | ##### add your solution here
fooc) For the input file sample.txt, extract all paragraphs with words starting with do.
$ cat sample.txt
Hello World
Good day
How are you
Just do-it
Believe it
Today is sunny
Not a bit funny
No doubt you like it too
Much ado about nothing
He he he
$ # note that there's no extra empty line at the end of expected output
##### add your solution here
Just do-it
Believe it
Today is sunny
Not a bit funny
No doubt you like it tood) For the input file sample.txt, change all paragraphs into single line by joining lines using . and a space character as the separator. And add a final . to each paragraph.
$ # note that there's no extra empty line at the end of expected output
##### add your solution here
Hello World.
Good day. How are you.
Just do-it. Believe it.
Today is sunny. Not a bit funny. No doubt you like it too.
Much ado about nothing. He he he.e) For the given input, use ;; as record separators and : as field separators. Display all records with second field having an integer greater than 50.
$ s='mango:100;;apple:25;;grapes:75'
$ # note that the output has ;; at the end but not newline character
$ printf "$s" | ##### add your solution here
mango:100;;grapes:75;;a) Print the last field of first two lines for the input files passed as arguments to the ruby script. Assume space as the field separators for these two files. To make the output more informative, print filenames and a separator as shown in the output below. Assume input files will have at least two lines.
$ # assume table.txt ip.txt are passed as file inputs
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>table.txt<
42
-7
----------
>ip.txt<
World
you
----------b) For the given list of input files, display all filenames that contain at or fun in the third field in any of the input lines. Assume space as the field separator and note that some lines may not have three fields.
$ # assume sample.txt secrets.txt ip.txt table.txt are passed as file inputs
##### add your solution here
secrets.txt
ip.txt
table.txtc) Print the first two lines for each of the input files ip.txt, sample.txt and table.txt. Also, add a separator between the results as shown below (note that the separator isn't present at the end of the output). Assume input files will have at least two lines.
##### add your solution here
Hello World
How are you
---
Hello World
---
brown bread mat hair 42
blue cake mug shirt -7a) For the input file sample.txt, print a matching line containing do only if the previous line is empty and the line before that contains you.
##### add your solution here
Just do-it
Much ado about nothingb) Print only the second matching line respectively for the search terms do and not for the input file sample.txt. Match these terms case insensitively.
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No doubt you like it too
Much ado about nothingc) For the input file sample.txt, print the matching lines containing are or bit as well as n lines around the matching lines. The value for n is passed to the ruby command as an environment value.
$ n=1 ##### add your solution here
Good day
How are you
Today is sunny
Not a bit funny
No doubt you like it too
$ # note that first and last line are empty for this case
$ n=2 ##### add your solution here
Good day
How are you
Just do-it
Today is sunny
Not a bit funny
No doubt you like it too
d) For the input file broken.txt, print all lines between the markers top and bottom. The first ruby command shown below doesn't work because it is matching till end of file if second marker isn't found. Assume that the input file cannot have two top markers without a bottom marker appearing in between and vice-versa.
$ cat broken.txt
top
3.14
bottom
---
top
1234567890
bottom
top
Hi there
Have a nice day
Good bye
$ # wrong output
$ ruby -ne '$f=false if /bottom/; print if $f; $f=true if /top/' broken.txt
3.14
1234567890
Hi there
Have a nice day
Good bye
$ # expected output
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3.14
1234567890e) For the input file concat.txt, extract contents from a line starting with %%% until but not including the next such line. The block to be extracted is indicated by variable n passed as an environment value.
$ cat concat.txt
%%% addr.txt
How are you
This game is good
Today %%% is sunny
%%% broken.txt
top %%%
1234567890
bottom
%%% sample.txt
Just %%% do-it
Believe it
%%% mixed_fs.txt
pink blue white yellow
car,mat,ball,basket
$ n=2 ##### add your solution here
%%% broken.txt
top %%%
1234567890
bottom
$ n=4 ##### add your solution here
%%% mixed_fs.txt
pink blue white yellow
car,mat,ball,basketf) For the input file ruby.md, replace all occurrences of ruby (irrespective of case) with Ruby. But, do not replace any matches between ```ruby and ``` lines (ruby in these markers shouldn't be replaced either).
##### add your solution here, redirect the output to 'out.md'
$ diff -sq out.md expected.md
Files out.md and expected.md are identicalg) Print the last two lines for each of the input files ip.txt, sample.txt and table.txt. Also, add a separator between the results as shown below (note that the separator isn't present at the end of the output). Assume input files will have at least two lines.
##### add your solution here
12345
You are funny
---
Much ado about nothing
He he he
---
blue cake mug shirt -7
yellow banana window shoes 3.14a) Use contents of match_words.txt file to display matching lines from jumbled.txt and sample.txt. The matching criteria is that the second word of lines from these files should match the third word of lines from match_words.txt.
$ cat match_words.txt
%whole(Hello)--{doubt}==ado==
just,\joint*,concession<=nice
$ # 'concession' is one of the third words from 'match_words.txt'
$ # and second word from 'jumbled.txt'
##### add your solution here
wavering:concession/woof\retailer
No doubt you like it toob) Interleave contents of secrets.txt with the contents of a file passed as stdin in the format as shown below.
##### add your solution here, use 'table.txt' as stdin
stag area row tick
brown bread mat hair 42
---
deaf chi rate tall glad
blue cake mug shirt -7
---
Bi tac toe - 42
yellow banana window shoes 3.14c) The file search_terms.txt contains one search string per line (these have no regexp metacharacters). Construct a solution that reads this file and displays search terms (matched case insensitively) that were found in all of the other input file arguments. Note that these terms should be matched with any part of the line, not just whole words.
$ cat search_terms.txt
hello
row
you
is
at
$ # ip: search_terms.txt jumbled.txt mixed_fs.txt secrets.txt table.txt oops.txt
##### add your solution here
row
at
$ # ip: search_terms.txt ip.txt sample.txt oops.txt
##### add your solution here
hello
you
isd) For the input file ip.txt, print all lines that contain are and the line that comes after such a line, if any. Use gets method to construct the solution.
$ # note that there shouldn't be an empty line at the end of the output
##### add your solution here
How are you
This game is good
You are funnyBonus: Will grep -A1 'is' ip.txt give identical results for your solution with is as the search term? If not, why?
e) Replace third to fifth lines of input file ip.txt with second to fourth lines from file para.txt
##### add your solution here
Hello World
How are you
Start working on that
project you always wanted
to, do not let it end
You are funnyf) Insert one line from jumbled.txt before every two lines of idx.txt
##### add your solution here
overcoats;furrowing-typeface%pewter##hobby
match after the last newline character
and then you want to test
wavering:concession/woof\retailer
this is good bye then
you were there to see?g) Use entire contents of match.txt to search error.txt and replace with contents of jumbled.txt. Partial lines should NOT be matched.
$ cat match.txt
print+this
but not that
$ cat error.txt
print+this
but not that or this
print+this
but not that
if print+this
but not that
print+this
but not that
##### add your solution here
print+this
but not that or this
overcoats;furrowing-typeface%pewter##hobby
wavering:concession/woof\retailer
if print+this
but not that
overcoats;furrowing-typeface%pewter##hobby
wavering:concession/woof\retailera) Retain only first copy of a line for the input file lines.txt. Case should be ignored while comparing lines. For example hi there and HI TheRE will be considered as duplicates.
$ cat lines.txt
Go There
come on
go there
---
2 apples and 5 mangoes
come on!
---
2 Apples
COME ON
##### add your solution here
Go There
come on
---
2 apples and 5 mangoes
come on!
2 Applesb) Retain only first copy of a line for the input file twos.txt. Assume space as field separator with two fields on each line. Compare the lines irrespective of order of the fields. For example, hehe haha and haha hehe will be considered as duplicates.
$ cat twos.txt
hehe haha
door floor
haha hehe
6;8 3-4
true blue
hehe bebe
floor door
3-4 6;8
tru eblue
haha hehe
##### add your solution here
hehe haha
door floor
6;8 3-4
true blue
hehe bebe
tru ebluec) For the input file twos.txt, display only unique lines. Assume space as field separator with two fields on each line. Compare the lines irrespective of order of the fields. For example, hehe haha and haha hehe will be considered as duplicates.
##### add your solution here
true blue
hehe bebe
tru eblue