GIAC Exam GSNA Topic 6 Question 66 Discussion

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Question #: 66
Topic #: 6

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John works as a Network Administrator for Perfect Solutions Inc. The company has a Linux-based network. John is working as a root user on the Linux operating system. He has a data.txt file in which each column is separated by the TAB character. Now, he wants to use this file as input for a data mining software he has created. The problem preventing him from accomplishing his task is that with his data mining software, he has used TAB as a delimiter to distinguish between columns. Hence, he is unable to use this file as input for the software. However, if he somehow replaces the TAB characters of the file with SPACE characters, he can use this file as an input file for his data mining software. Which of the following commands will John use to replace the TAB characters of the file with SPACE characters?

Aexpand -t 1 data.txt > data.txt

Bcat data.txt

Cchmod 755 data.txt

Dtouch data.txt

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Laurene

1 months ago

I bet John's data mining software is as confusing as this question. Gotta love tech problems!

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Veronique

1 months ago

Seriously? Chmod and touch? Those commands have nothing to do with replacing characters in a file. I need to brush up on my Linux skills.

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Moon

1 months ago

Wait, what? I thought we were supposed to use cat to read the file. This is definitely trickier than it looks.

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Corinne

7 days ago

A) Oh, right. Then it must be 'expand -t 1 data.txt > data.txt'.

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Ceola

9 days ago

B) No, that won't work. You need to replace TAB with SPACE.

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Leah

21 days ago

A) expand -t 1 data.txt > data.txt

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Soledad

1 months ago

Hmm, I was thinking about using sed, but expand seems like a more straightforward solution. Nice find!

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Buck

11 days ago

User 1: Thanks! I think expand -t 1 data.txt > data.txt should do the trick.

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Oliva

2 months ago

The expand command is the way to go! It will replace the TAB characters with spaces, making the file compatible with the data mining software.

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Blondell

20 days ago

Thanks! I'll try that command right away.

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Lorrie

1 months ago

Great choice! This command will replace the TAB characters with spaces in the file.

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Kristel

2 months ago

A) expand -t 1 data.txt > data.txt

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Tarra

2 months ago

I'm not sure about the answer. Can someone explain why option A is the correct choice?

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Vivan

2 months ago

I agree with Dan. Option A seems like the correct command for John to use in this situation.

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Dan

2 months ago

I think John should use option A) expand -t 1 data.txt > data.txt to replace TAB characters with SPACE.

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