SUGGESTED EXERCISES FOR AWK
(1) Use ls -l and awk to obtain the total space consumed by some
group of files.
(2) Examine the /etc/passwd file with awk to print out only the
shells. Pipe the output into sort -u (or into sort | uniq).
(3) Use awk to convert the output of who into a list of statements
with the following form:
User ggww is on terminal line ttyp0
(4) Suppose you have a rule on your system that user id's are to
all be at least 4 characters in length. You want to make sure
this rule has been followed. Show how to write a list of all
user id's which do not follow this rule.
(5) Find 1 or 2 (or more ways to print an entire file which are
different from the ones shown in class.