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42 changes: 42 additions & 0 deletions implement-shell-tools/cat/cat-python.py
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import sys

def cat_file(filename, flag):
try:
with open(filename, 'r') as file:
if not flag:
for line in file:
print(line, end="")

elif flag == "-n":
for index, line in enumerate(file, start=1):
print(f"{index:6}\t{line}", end="")

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good use of python formatting


elif flag == "-b":
line_number = 1
for line in file:
if line.strip() == "":
print(line, end="")
else:
print(f"{line_number:6}\t{line}", end="")
line_number += 1

except FileNotFoundError:
print(f"cat: {filename}: No such file or directory", file=sys.stderr)

def main():
args = sys.argv[1:]

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Do you know of any easier ways to help build argument parsing? you can do it manually, but you are missing a help option, and adding more complex arguments might get complicated in larger scripts.


flag = False

if "-n" in args:
flag = "-n"
args.remove("-n")
elif "-b" in args:
flag = "-b"
args.remove("-b")

for filename in args:
cat_file(filename, flag)

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
33 changes: 33 additions & 0 deletions implement-shell-tools/ls/ls-python.py
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import sys
import os

def main():
args = sys.argv[1:]

path = "."
one_per_line = False
show_hidden = False

for arg in args:
if arg == "-a":
show_hidden = True
elif arg == "-1":
one_per_line = True
elif not arg.startswith("-"):
path = arg

entries = os.listdir(path)

entries.sort()

if not show_hidden:
entries = [f for f in entries if not f.startswith(".")]

if one_per_line:
for entry in entries:
print(entry)
else:
print(" ".join(entries))

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
66 changes: 66 additions & 0 deletions implement-shell-tools/wc/wc-python.py
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import sys

def count_file(filename):

with open(filename, 'r') as file:
content = file.read()

lines = len(content.splitlines())
words = len(content.split())
chars = len(content)

return (lines, words, chars)


def format_output(lines, words, chars, filename, show_l, show_w, show_c):
parts = []

if show_l:
parts.append(f"{lines:8}")
if show_w:
parts.append(f"{words:8}")
if show_c:
parts.append(f"{chars:8}")

parts.append(filename)

return " ".join(parts)

def main():
args = sys.argv[1:]

l = w = c = False
files = []

for arg in args:
if arg == "-l":
l = True
elif arg == "-w":
w = True
elif arg == "-c":
c = True
elif not arg.startswith("-"):
files.append(arg)

if not (l or w or c):
l = w = c = True

total_lines = total_words = total_chars = 0
processed_files = 0

for filename in files:
result = count_file(filename)
if result:
lines, words, chars = result
print(format_output(lines, words, chars, filename, l, w, c))

total_lines += lines
total_words += words
total_chars += chars
processed_files += 1

if processed_files > 1:
print(format_output(total_lines, total_words, total_chars, "total", l, w, c))

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
41 changes: 21 additions & 20 deletions number-systems/README.md

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Did you mean to make changes to this file? We try to keep pull requests specific to just the files in the feature we are changing - for this, everything within the shell tools sprint task directory.

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The goal of these exercises is for you to gain an intuition for binary numbers. Using tools to solve the problems defeats the point.

Convert the decimal number 14 to binary.
Answer:
Answer: 1110

Convert the binary number 101101 to decimal:
Answer:
Answer: 45

Which is larger: 1000 or 0111?
Answer:
Answer: 1000

Which is larger: 00100 or 01011?
Answer:
Answer: 01011

What is 10101 + 01010?
Answer:
Answer: 11111

What is 10001 + 10001?
Answer:
Answer:100010

What's the largest number you can store with 4 bits, if you want to be able to represent the number 0?
Answer:
Answer: 1111 = 15 (largest representable number)
Number of possible values including 0 = 16

How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 255 inclusive?
Answer:
Answer: 8 bits

How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 3 inclusive?
Answer:
Answer: 2 bits => 00, 01, 10, 11

How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 1000 inclusive?
Answer:
Answer: 10 bits

How can you test if a binary number is a power of two (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...)?
Answer:
Answer: Been a binary it would be 1 followed by 0s => 100, 10000, 10

Convert the decimal number 14 to hex.
Answer:
Answer:0xE

Convert the decimal number 386 to hex.
Answer:
Answer: 0x182

Convert the hex number 386 to decimal.
Answer:
Answer: 902

Convert the hex number B to decimal.
Answer:
Answer:11

If reading the byte 0x21 as a number, what decimal number would it mean?
Answer:
Answer:33

If reading the byte 0x21 as an ASCII character, what character would it mean?
Answer:
Answer:!

If reading the byte 0x21 as a greyscale colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean?
Answer:
Answer: Dark Grey

If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as an RGB colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean?
Answer:
Answer:Purple (magenta)

If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as a sequence of three one-byte decimal numbers, what decimal numbers would they be?
Answer:
Answer: 170 0 255
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