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erbrown 531db9accb Created different files words 1k, words 10k, and words 100k. Explored words 100k with different excersies.
This lab was very different from Unit 1. This lab required more critcal thinking skills rather than exploration I felt. I struggled with this one the most out of all the other labs we have had to complete as I had to think deeper with the specific commands. This thinking came from other computer science course I have taken along with mathematics courses.

I honestly felt that working with a smaller group of words might have been easier to I could really understand what the commands mean. With such a large pool of words it was hard to really understand if I was using the commands correcting but once I got the hang of it I understood it.

Yes, I did get stuck with the last four questions. I had to really go back to the notes to understand the commands but like I said above once I got the hang of it. It became easy. The type of stuck was different from Unit 1 as Unit 1 felt more outlined for me and more direct where this lab was not as direct.

Yes, I have gotten help from peers as when I struggle I ask what they have done to get the correct answer. I have also asked you for help when I come across a problem.
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Exercises

Answer the following questions (or at least as many as you can figure out) in this document. For all the questions, use the 100k words. Give your answer for each exercise, and show the command you used to get it. Each question can be answered using a single Terminal command, though you might need to use a number of pipes.

If you want to be really stylish, put your code inside of backticks like this:

cat words_100k.txt | length | put 10 | equal | count

1. What is the longest word?

cat words_100k.txt|length|order|tail -n 1 28 antidisestablishmentarianism

2. How many words have two u's in a row?

cat words_100k.txt| match "uu"|count 16

3. How many words have the word "cat" in them?

cat words_100k.txt| match "cat"|count 893

4. How many words have all five vowels (aeiou)?

cat words_100k.txt| match "a"|match "e"| match "i"| match "o"| match "u"| count 812

5. Which words have two e's in a row, two o's in a row, and two k's in a row? (they don't have to be in that order)

cat words_100k.txt| match "ee" |match "oo"| match "kk" 3

6. How many words have sixteen or more letters?

cat words_100k.txt|length|put 15|lessthan 0 1|count 696

7. What's the most frequent 10-letter word?

cat words_100k.txt| frequency | length 1 | put 10| equal 0 1| order 2| tail -n 1 10 10 372000 government Government is the most frequent 10 - letter word

8. What's the longest word which doesn't have any repeated letters?

cat words_100k.txt|unique| length 1|length 1|equal|order|tail -n 1 13 13 acegilmnopsty salpingectomy

9. What's the longest word which only uses four different letters?

cat words_100k.txt|unique|length 0| put 4|equal|pluck 3|length|order| tail -n 1 13 senselessness

10. If you rearrange the letters in "sidebar," what other words can you create?

cat words_100k.txt| match "s"| match "i"| match "d" | match "e"| match "b"| match "a"| match "r"|length| put 7| equal 0 1| 7 7 braised 7 7 seabird 7 7 sidebar