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XK0-005 · Question #667

A file called testfile has both uppercase and lowercase letters: $ cat testfile ABCDEfgH IJKLmnoPQ abcdefgH ijklLMNopq A Linux administrator is tasked with converting testfile into all uppercase and…

The correct answer is D. tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' < testfile > uppercase. This command will use the tr tool to translate all lowercase letters in the testfile to uppercase letters and write the output to the uppercase file. The first argument [a-z]' specifies the set of characters to be replaced, and the second argument [A-Z]' specifies the set of…

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A file called testfile has both uppercase and lowercase letters:

$ cat testfile ABCDEfgH IJKLmnoPQ abcdefgH ijklLMNopq A Linux administrator is tasked with converting testfile into all uppercase and writing it to a new file with the name uppercase. Which of the following commands will achieve this task?

Options

  • Atr '(A-Z}' '{a-z}' < testfile > uppercase
  • Becho testfile | tr "[Z-A]" "[z-a]" < testfile > uppercase
  • Ccat testfile | tr '{z-a)' '{Z-A}' < testfile > uppercase
  • Dtr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' < testfile > uppercase

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  • A
    10% (7)
  • B
    6% (4)
  • C
    3% (2)
  • D
    81% (54)

Explanation

This command will use the tr tool to translate all lowercase letters in the testfile to uppercase letters and write the output to the uppercase file. The first argument [a-z]' specifies the set of characters to be replaced, and the second argument [A-Z]' specifies the set of characters to replace with. The <' symbol redirects the input from the testfile, and the >' symbol redirects the output to the uppercase file.

Topics

#tr utility#Text processing#I/O Redirection#Linux commands

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