diff --git a/q1.sh b/q1.sh
index f7ac848..32631fc 100644
--- a/q1.sh
+++ b/q1.sh
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-This is q1 answer
+awk 'END {print NR}' aliceinwonderland.txt
+awk '{for (i=2;i<NF;i++) if($i=="Alice") count++} END {print count}' aliceinwonderland.txt
+# another option for B:
+# awk '/ Alice / {count++} END {print count}' aliceinwonderland.txt
+awk '{for (i=2; i<NF; i++) a[$i]++} END {for (k in a) if(a[k] ==1) print k}' aliceinwonderland.txt
+awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) a[$i]++ } END {for (k in a) print k, a[k]}' aliceinwonderland.txt  | sort -k 2 -h | tail -6 | sed '5d'
+awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {total_length+=length($i);count++}} END {print total_length/count}' aliceinwonderland.txt
diff --git a/q2.sh b/q2.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..90534a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/q2.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+sed -rn '/(Holmes|Sherlock)/p' sherlockholmes.txt | wc -l
+sed -rn '/(Holmes|Sherlock)/p' sherlockholmes.txt | grep -oE "(Sherlock|Holmes)" | wc -l
+sed -n 's/^/Hello:/p' sherlockholmes.txt
+sed -rn 's/[A-Z][A-Za-z]+\s[A-Z][A-Za-z]+/Amit Katzman/gp' sherlockholmes.txt
+sed -rn 's/\(/\[/pg' sherlockholmes.txt | sed -rn 's/\)/\]/pg'