Challenges by Lotfi Hamadene

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Challenge on Linux

Archive & Compress files with tar - The Survival Guide

by Lotfi Hamadene

Master **tar** in 9 focused steps: create archives, gzip/bzip2/xz compression, list without extracting, extract to a target dir, exclude patterns, append, update. Data lives in /home/laborant/tar_challenge/; expected outputs go to /home/laborant/.

#tar #compression #archive #scripting

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge on Linux

The SED command : Survival Guide - What You Must Know

by Lotfi Hamadene

Master **sed**, the essential stream editor for Linux SysAdmins. Progress through 10 tasks: simple & global substitution, regex patterns, line ranges, deletion, insertion, ... Work with realistic Rocky Linux system files in /home/laborant/sed_challenge/.

#sed #text-processing #stream-editor #rhcsa

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge on Linux, Observability

AWK Mastery: From Zero to Hero

by Lotfi Hamadene

3-phase AWK challenge on realistic data in /home/laborant/awk_challenge/. Fundamentals: columns, delimiters, formatting. Logic & regex: filters, anchors, conditions, math. Sysadmin: logs, CSVs, metrics, counts, reports. Data lives under /home/laborant/awk_challenge/ (logs/access, data/hr, sys/metrics) and outputs are written to /home/laborant/ files.

#awk #scripting #text-processing #rhcsa