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BIGFIX PLATFORM 11 EXAM 2026 MASTER
REVIEW
◉ cut. Answer: Used to remove sections from each line of files
◉ head. Answer: Output the first part of a file
◉ nl. Answer: Add line numbers to a file for display or redirect to
another file
◉ sed. Answer: Stream editor for filtering and formatting text
◉ sed 's/ugly/beautiful/g'. Answer: Replace all instances of 'ugly'
with 'beautiful' in myfile.txt
◉ regex. Answer: Encompasses tools like sed, awk, grep, egrep, ed,
etc. Short for regular expressions
◉ tail. Answer: Output the last part of a file
◉ uniq. Answer: Report or omit repeated lines
,◉ uniq -d. Answer: Only print duplicate lines
◉ uniq -u. Answer: Only print unique lines
◉ od. Answer: Dump files in octal format
◉ paste. Answer: Merge lines of files
◉ sort. Answer: Sort forward/reverse contents by alpha/numeric
characters
◉ tr. Answer: Translate/squeeze/delete characters from standard
input writing to output
◉ wc. Answer: Word count
◉ cp. Answer: Copy files and directories
◉ cp -a. Answer: Copy and archive
◉ cp -backup. Answer: Copy and back up each destination file
, ◉ cp -d. Answer: Copy, same as preserve links
◉ mv. Answer: Move files and directories
◉ mv -f. Answer: Move and do not prompt to overwrite
◉ mv -i. Answer: Move and prompt for overwrite, interactive
◉ mv -n. Answer: Move and do not overwrite exiting file (no
clobber)
◉ touch. Answer: Change file date/time attributes
◉ touch -a. Answer: Access file time only
◉ touch -c. Answer: Touch a file, but do not create if it doesn't exist
◉ touch -d. Answer: Parse a string and use it instead of current time
on a file
◉ touch -m. Answer: Change only the file modification time
BIGFIX PLATFORM 11 EXAM 2026 MASTER
REVIEW
◉ cut. Answer: Used to remove sections from each line of files
◉ head. Answer: Output the first part of a file
◉ nl. Answer: Add line numbers to a file for display or redirect to
another file
◉ sed. Answer: Stream editor for filtering and formatting text
◉ sed 's/ugly/beautiful/g'. Answer: Replace all instances of 'ugly'
with 'beautiful' in myfile.txt
◉ regex. Answer: Encompasses tools like sed, awk, grep, egrep, ed,
etc. Short for regular expressions
◉ tail. Answer: Output the last part of a file
◉ uniq. Answer: Report or omit repeated lines
,◉ uniq -d. Answer: Only print duplicate lines
◉ uniq -u. Answer: Only print unique lines
◉ od. Answer: Dump files in octal format
◉ paste. Answer: Merge lines of files
◉ sort. Answer: Sort forward/reverse contents by alpha/numeric
characters
◉ tr. Answer: Translate/squeeze/delete characters from standard
input writing to output
◉ wc. Answer: Word count
◉ cp. Answer: Copy files and directories
◉ cp -a. Answer: Copy and archive
◉ cp -backup. Answer: Copy and back up each destination file
, ◉ cp -d. Answer: Copy, same as preserve links
◉ mv. Answer: Move files and directories
◉ mv -f. Answer: Move and do not prompt to overwrite
◉ mv -i. Answer: Move and prompt for overwrite, interactive
◉ mv -n. Answer: Move and do not overwrite exiting file (no
clobber)
◉ touch. Answer: Change file date/time attributes
◉ touch -a. Answer: Access file time only
◉ touch -c. Answer: Touch a file, but do not create if it doesn't exist
◉ touch -d. Answer: Parse a string and use it instead of current time
on a file
◉ touch -m. Answer: Change only the file modification time
