LPI Linux Essentials (010-160)
Domain 3Objective 2
3.2 Searching and Extracting Data from Files (weight: 3) LINUX-ESSENTIALS Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the Topic 3: The Power of the Command Line domain, which makes up ~16% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 60-minute exam (~25–40 total, ~4–6 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 14 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Which grep option displays only lines that do NOT match the given pattern?
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A data analyst has a file named data.txt with lines like 'apple 5', 'banana 3', 'apple 2', 'cherry 7'. They need to sort the data by the second field (number) in descending order, and then for ties, sort by the first field alphabetically. Which command should they use?
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Which command is best for viewing a large file one screen at a time, allowing you to scroll forward and backward?
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What does the pipe symbol (|) do in a command line?
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Which uniq option displays the number of times each line occurs?
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