Twelve Days of Shell

I think a beginner could be doing it right but then be told they are wrong as you aren’t evaluating actual commands

Best would be to like actually run it* and then check solutions out with awk that it pattern matches

* aka give me a shell ok worth a try lol xD

Edit: also I was expecting something a bit more challenging (also that is correct) to like exercise the brain for those of us that use shell (this is hacker news) something that takes a few minutes and isn’t just commands used all the time

Perhaps it would be even nicer if the "advent" theme was more prominently present, e.g. using the Bible as the target data file to be used.

Here's three examples tasks from me:

(1) Write an sh script (using only POSIX standard commands) to create a Keywords in Context (KWIC) concordance of the new testament.

(2) Write a bash script that uses grep with regular expressions to extracts all literal quotes of what Jesus said in the New Testament. [Incidentally, doing this task manually marked the beginnings of philology and later automating it marked the beginning of what was later called literary and linguistic computing, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and digital humanities.]

(3) How many times is Jesus mentioned by each of the four accounts of his life (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)?

(You may begin by extracting the New Testament from the end of the Bible with a grep command.)

Dataset: https://openbible.com/textfiles/kjv.txt

Especially since the previous two questions used head/tail. IMO, the wording would be better as "find all the lines" since that's what the command does.