what are the uses of filters?

Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback



what are the uses of filters?..

Answer / satish

A filter is a program/command that gets most of its data
from its standard input and writes its main results to its
standard output.

Following are some filter commands.
awk,cat,comm,cut,expand,compress,fold,grep,head,tail,sed,sh,
tee,uniq,wc

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 0 No

what are the uses of filters?..

Answer / lakshmi

To filter the data from existing file.We can use filters to
extract the data according to our need.

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 2 No

what are the uses of filters?..

Answer / sekhar

to filter the data in existing file.

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 3 No

Post New Answer

More Unix Commands Interview Questions

What is the difference between udp and tcp?

2 Answers   HCL, TCS,


what is exact definition of operating system?

13 Answers  


How do I use grep to find a file?

0 Answers  


How to setup Disk space as well as memory in solaris10?

4 Answers  


Which command is used to kill the last background job?

0 Answers  






What is the syntax of grep command and what is its use?

6 Answers  


what will this do $cat > file.c ?(file.c is a file in current directory)

20 Answers   IBM,


What is command statement?

0 Answers  


Describe the usage and functionality of the command rm –r * in unix?

2 Answers  


How do you create a file in UNIX

36 Answers   Accenture, EMG, Nokia, QA, TD,


What command would users use to see what file one page at a time in UNIX?

7 Answers   IBM,


How to identify whether a file is normal file or directory?

3 Answers  


Categories