CompTIA Exam XK0-005 Topic 4 Question 36 Discussion

Actual exam question for CompTIA's XK0-005 exam

Question #: 36
Topic #: 4

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A file called testfile has both uppercase and lowercase letters:

$ cat testfile

ABCDEfgH

IJKLmnoPQ

abcdefgH

ijklLMNopq

A Linux administrator is tasked with converting testfile into all uppercase and writing it to a new file with the name uppercase. Which of the following commands will achieve

this task?

Atr '(A-Z}' '{a-z}' < testfile > uppercase

Becho testfile | tr '[Z-A]' '[z-a]' < testfile > uppercase

Ccat testfile | tr '{z-a)' '{Z-A}' < testfile > uppercase

Dtr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' < testfile > uppercase

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Suggested Answer: D

This command will use the tr tool to translate all lowercase letters in the testfile to uppercase letters and write the output to the uppercase file. The first argument '[a-z]' specifies the set of characters to be replaced, and the second argument '[A-Z]' specifies the set of characters to replace with.The '<' symbol redirects the input from the testfile, and the '>' symbol redirects the output to the uppercase file12.

by Joaquin at Aug 07, 2024, 08:35 PM

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Ben

5 months ago

Yo, option D is the MVP here. Bet those other options are just trying to be fancy, but we don't need that. Keep it simple, folks!

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Eladia

5 months ago

Ah, the age-old question of converting a file to uppercase. D is the way to go, no doubt about it.

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Mila

4 months ago

I agree, tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' < testfile > uppercase is the way to go.

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Stanton

4 months ago

I think D is the correct command to convert the file to uppercase.

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Allene

5 months ago

Wait, why do we need to redirect the input and output files? Option D seems the most straightforward.

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Carman

4 months ago

Redirecting input and output files is necessary to save the changes to a new file. Option D is the correct command to use.

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Doyle

4 months ago

Option D seems like the best choice. It will convert all lowercase letters to uppercase.

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Barrie

5 months ago

I agree with Essie, D is the correct answer.

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Essie

5 months ago

But D converts lowercase to uppercase, which is what we need.

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Lonna

6 months ago

I disagree, I believe the answer is A.

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Muriel

6 months ago

Hmm, I'm not sure about the syntax of some of these options. I think I'll go with D just to be safe.

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Christa

5 months ago

Let's go with D to convert the file to all uppercase.

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Mila

5 months ago

Yeah, D looks like the correct command.

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Margart

5 months ago

I think D is the right choice.

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Loreta

6 months ago

Option D looks good to me. It's a simple one-liner that should do the trick.

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Shaun

5 months ago

Let's go with option D then, it's a simple and effective solution.

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Truman

5 months ago

I agree, tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' should work perfectly for this task.

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Reena

5 months ago

Yeah, using tr to convert lowercase to uppercase seems like the way to go.

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Truman

5 months ago

I think option D is the correct one.

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Essie

6 months ago

I think the answer is D.

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