Question

Which of the following will be used to print lines containing ‘manager’ in emp.lst?

(a) awk ‘/manager/ { print }’ emp.lst

(b) awk ‘/manager { print }’ emp.lst

(c) awk ‘/manager/ { print } emp.lst

(d) awk ‘manager { print }’ emp.lst

This question was posed to me by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

I'm obligated to ask this question of Various Operations using Awk Command topic in section Awk – An Advanced Filter & Perl – The Master Manipulator of Unix

Answer 1

The correct option is (a) awk ‘/manager/ { print }’ emp.lst

Explanation: The syntax for using awk is: