Question

Write a shell (text-based) program, called first_word.py, that opens the file stuff.txt and prints out the first word of every line except the first line.

For example, if stuff.txt has the following sentences:

We are hungry.
There is an apple.
There is an orange.
Now we are thirsty.
Then the following example output would happen.

PS C:\Users\ssiva\Desktop> python first_word.py
There
There
Now
PS C:\Users\ssiva\Desktop>

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

Please check below for the code for first_word.py file which will print first word of an input file stuff.txt. So the open function will open file in read mode. We had maintained a count variable so that we can skip printing first word of first line. Also the command line.strip() checks whether string is empty or not so that we will not get index error while calling split function over line to get first word.

#!/usr/local/bin/python

stuff = open("stuff.txt", "r");

count = 0;

for line in stuff:

count+=1;

if (count>1 and line.strip()):

print(line.split(maxsplit=1)[0])