LPI Linux Essentials (010-160)
Domain 3Objective 2
3.2 Searching and Extracting Data from Files (weight: 3) LINUX-ESSENTIALS Practice Questions (Page 2)
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 makes the search case-insensitive?
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A data analyst has a file named sales.txt with lines like '2024-01-15 100', '2024-01-16 150', '2024-01-15 200'. They need to sort the lines by date and then by amount in descending order. Which command should they use?
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Which sort option performs a numeric sort instead of a lexicographic (alphabetical) sort?
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In a regular expression used with grep, what does the caret (^) symbol represent?
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A data analyst has a file named scores.txt with one score per line, such as '85', '92', '78'. They need to sort these scores in descending numeric order and then count how many times each score appears. Which command sequence accomplishes this?
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