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- One of the big differences is that we didn't write out code in an IDE but rather did it all in the terminal. The process of designing these pipes though drew on the skills of functional programming. - I'm used to writing these kinds of programs in a language like python or java but it's honestly much easier to use the command line tools. - The last exercise tripped me up because I wanted to do it in a way that would for any word, but I wasn't sure how. Is there a way to sort the letters in each word? My solution only works because 'sidebar' doesn't have any repeated letters. - Yeah, I've engaged in the group chat a bit but I don't want to flood the chat. It's hard to gage how helpful my input actually is since we all have differing backgrounds.
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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|pluck 1
- 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|unique|match "a.*e.*i.*o.*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"
- bookkeeper
- bookkeepers
- bookkeeping
6. How many words have sixteen or more letters?
cat words_100k.txt|length|put 15|lessthan|count
- 696
7. What's the most frequent 10-letter word?
cat words_100k.txt|length|put 10|equal|pluck 2|frequency|order|tail -n 1|pluck 1
- government
8. What's the longest word which doesn't have any repeated letters?
at words_100k.txt|length|unique 1|length|equal 0 2|order|tail -n 1|pluck 3
-salpingectomy
9. What's the longest word which only uses four different letters?
cat words_100k.txt|unique|length|put 4|equal|pluck 3|length|order|tail -n 1|pluck 1
-senselessness
10. If you rearrange the letters in "sidebar," what other words can you create?
at words_100k.txt|length|put 7|equal|unique 2|match "abdeirs"|pluck 3
- braised
- seabird
- sidebar