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16. Why does a shell process terminate when you press <Ctrl-D> at the beginning of a new
line?
Every UNIX file has an end-of-file (eof) marker. The commands that read their input
from files read the eof marker when they reach the end of a file. For files that can be
stored, the value of the eof marker is not a character; it is usually a small negative integer
such as -1. The <Ctrl-D> on a new line is the UNIX eof marker when the input file is
a keyboard. That is why commands such as cat while reading input from the keyboard
(see Chapter 9) terminate when you press <Ctrl-D> on a new line.
Give a command line to display the types of all the files in your /unix directory that start with
the word chapter, are followed by a digit 1, 2, 6, 8, or 9, and end with .eps or .prn.
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starting-with-specific-text
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