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Stabler - Lx 185/209 2003
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The command 4% in (6) changes the space characters to newlines in persu11.wds
The command 7% in (7) changes everything in the complement of A-Za-z to newlines and then squeezes
repeated occurrences of newlines down to a single occurrence.
(8) 9%sort -d persu11.wds > persu11.srt
10%more persu11.srt
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About
Abydos
Accordingly
(9) 11%tr -sc ’A-Z’ ’a-z’ ’\012’ < persu11.txt > persu11.wds
tr: too many arguments
Try ‘tr --help’ for more information.
12%tr ’A-Z’ ’a-z’ < persu11.txt > persu11.low
13%more persu11.wds
persuasion by jane austen
chapter 1
sir walter elliot, of kellynch hall, in somersetshire, was a man who,
for his own amusement, never took up any book but the baronetage;
there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a
distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and
respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents;
there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs
changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over
the almost endless creations of the last century; and there,
if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history
with an interest which never failed. this was the page at which
the favorite volume always opened:
"elliot of kellynch hall.
"walter elliot, born march 1, 1760, married, july 15, 1784, elizabeth,
daughter of james stevenson, esq. of south park, in the county of
gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue elizabeth,
(10) 17%tr -sc ’A-Za-z’ ’\012’ < persu11.low > persu11.wds
18%wc -l persu11.wds
84125 persu11.wds
19%more persu11.wds
persuasion
by
jane
austen
chapter
sir
walter
elliot
of
kellynch
hall
in
somersetshire
was
a
man
who
for
his
own
amusement
never
Why has the number of words increased from what we had in 3% of (5)? (Think about what happened
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