What is the basic difference you find between a shell script and perl?

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write a scwipt that a) takes exactly one argument, a directory name. b) if the number of argument is more or less than one,print a usage message c) if the argument is not adirectory, print another message d) for the given directory, print the five biggest files and the five files that were most recently modified. e) save the output to a file called q2output.

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What is an sh file?

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What are the two files of crontab command?

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Is cmd a shell?

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Create a bash shell script that removes all files whose names end with a "~" from your home directory and subdirectories. Name this script "cleanup.sh"

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Is bash an operating system?

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How to initialize a directory size to a variable??

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What does egrep mean?

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I have to write Shells (Linux + Unix)for publishing packages and reports. Is it possible ? What are the differents executable programs ineed to call ?

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Why we are writting shell scripts? Plz if possible explain it briefly.

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What is the difference between running a script as ./scriptname.sh and sh scriptname.sh

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