leopolicastro / command_line_hackathon

Command Line Hackathon

Setup

• git clone [email protected]:leopolicastro/command_line_hackathon.git.
• cd into command_line_hackathon.
• ls from within the command_line_hackathon folder. You should see a file called presidents.txt and one called README.md.

Your Task

Use only Terminal commands to achieve these goals. No cheating by using a GUI!

• Make a new directory called presidents.
• Move the presidents.txt file into the presidents directory.
• Inside the presidents directory, make a new file called sorted.txt, which sorts the presidents in alphabetical order by first name.
• Inside the presidents directory, make a new file called jameses.txt which contains all the presidents named James (Hint: grep).
• Inside the presidents directory, make a new file called williams.txt, which contains all the presidents named William (Hint: grep).
• Inside the presidents directory, make a new file called my_favorite.txt. Use echo to write the name of your favorite president inside.
• Use curl to download the contents of this webpage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States) into a file called presidents.html

Stretch Goals

• There's a secret file in this repository, which tells you Andy's favorite president, as well as the reason. Inside the presidents directory, make a new file called andys_favorite.txt, which contains that information.
• Inside the presidents directory, make a new file called presidents_with_middle_initials.txt, which contains all the presidents with middle initials. (Hint: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10346816/using-grep-to-search-for-a-string-that-has-a-dot-in-it)
• Inside the presidents directory, make a new file called common_first_names.txt, which has all of the first names that occur more than once.
• Grover Cleveland is listed twice because he was elected to two nonconsecutive terms, so he shouldn't really be on this list. Figure out how to get him off the list.