diff --git a/my_q1.sh b/my_q1.sh
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+# first question:
+awk 'END {print "Total lines:", NR}' aliceinwonderland.txt
+
+#second question:
+awk '{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) if ($i ~ /Alice/) count++} END {print "Alice appears:", count, "times"}' aliceinwonderland.txt
+
+#third question:
+awk '{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) words[tolower($i)]++} END {print "Unique words:", length(words)}' aliceinwonderland.txt
+
+#fourth question:
+awk '{
+    for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {
+        word = tolower($i)  
+        gsub(/[^a-z]/, "", word)  
+        if (word != "") words[word]++  
+    }
+} 
+END {
+    for (w in words) print words[w], w
+}' aliceinwonderland.txt | sort -nr | head -5
+
+#fifth question:
+awk '{
+    for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {
+        word = tolower($i)  # Convert word to lowercase
+        gsub(/[^a-z]/, "", word)  # Remove all non-letter characters
+        if (word != "") {  # Ignore empty words
+            total_length += length(word)  # Sum word lengths
+            word_count++  # Count number of words
+        }
+    }
+} 
+END {
+    if (word_count > 0) 
+        print "Average word length:", total_length / word_count
+    else 
+        print "No words found."
+}' aliceinwonderland.txt
+
+
diff --git a/my_q2.sh b/my_q2.sh
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+#first question:
+sed -n '/\b\(Sherlock\|Holmes\)\b/p' sherlockholmes.txt | wc -l
+
+#seond question:
+sed -n 's/\b\(Sherlock\|Holmes\)\b/&\n/gp' sherlockholmes.txt | wc -l
+
+#third question:
+sed 's/^/Hello: /' sherlockholmes.txt
+
+#forth question:
+sed -E 's/\b[A-Z][a-z]+ [A-Z][a-z]+\b/Bar/g' sherlockholmes.txt
+
+#fifth question:
+sed -E 's/\(/[/g; s/\)/]/g' sherlockholmes.txt
+