diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-01.sh b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-01.sh
index 8db4390af..e75a263cf 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-01.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-01.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output just the names of each player in `scores-table.txt`.
 # Your output should contain 6 lines, each with just one word on it.
+
+awk '{print $1}' scores-table.txt
diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-02.sh b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-02.sh
index 5956be9bd..5559ca2fb 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-02.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-02.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output the names of each player, as well as their city.
 # Your output should contain 6 lines, each with two words on it, separated by a space.
+awk '{print $1, $2}' scores-table.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-03.sh b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-03.sh
index af7c6e8b9..55c51c48e 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-03.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-03.sh
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # TODO: Write a command to output just the names of each player along with the score from their first attempt.
 # Your output should contain 6 lines, each with one word and one number on it.
 # The first line should be "Ahmed 1".
+awk '{print $1, $3}' scores-table.txt
diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-04.sh b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-04.sh
index bf15703c7..cecbb0b72 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-04.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-04.sh
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # TODO: Write a command to output just the names of each player in London along with the score from their last attempt.
 # Your output should contain 3 lines, each with one word and one number on it.
 # The first line should be "Ahmed 4".
+awk '$2=="London" {print $1, $NF}' scores-table.txt
diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-05.sh b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-05.sh
index d1680cb02..49c4e9da5 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-05.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-05.sh
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # TODO: Write a command to output just the names of each player along with the number of times they've played the game.
 # Your output should contain 6 lines, each with one word and one number on it.
 # The first line should be "Ahmed 3".
+awk '{count=0; for(i=3;i<=NF;i++) count++; print $1, count}' scores-table.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-06-stretch.sh b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-06-stretch.sh
index 0201e6378..5abf1ecfc 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-06-stretch.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-06-stretch.sh
@@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output the total of adding together all players' first scores.
 # Your output should be exactly the number 54.
+awk '{
+  for(i=3;i<=3;i++) total += $i
+} END {print total}' scores-table.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-07-stretch.sh b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-07-stretch.sh
index 3f7155880..485223232 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-07-stretch.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/awk/script-07-stretch.sh
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # TODO: Write a command to output just the names of each player along with the total of adding all of that player's scores.
 # Your output should contain 6 lines, each with one word and one number on it.
 # The first line should be "Ahmed 15". The second line should be "Basia 37"
+awk '{sum=0; for(i=3;i<=NF;i++) sum += $i; print $1, sum}' scores-table.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-01.sh b/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-01.sh
index c85053e0f..9e374dc80 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-01.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-01.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output the contents of the helper-1.txt file inside the helper-files directory to the terminal.
 # The output of this command should be "Once upon a time...".
+cyf@MacBookPro individual-shell-tools % cat helper-files/helper-1.txt 
diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-02.sh b/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-02.sh
index 01bbd5eab..e5ea59278 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-02.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-02.sh
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # It looked delicious.
 # I was tempted to take a bite of it.
 # But this seemed like a bad idea...
+cyf@MacBookPro individual-shell-tools % cat helper-files/helper-*.txt
diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-03.sh b/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-03.sh
index 37573b0c1..e778d927e 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-03.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-03.sh
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # 1 It looked delicious.
 # 2 I was tempted to take a bite of it.
 # 3 But this seemed like a bad idea...
+cyf@MacBookPro individual-shell-tools % cat -n helper-files/helper-3.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-04-stretch.sh b/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-04-stretch.sh
index 00fe3c48b..b3238d06a 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-04-stretch.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/cat/script-04-stretch.sh
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # 3 It looked delicious.
 # 4 I was tempted to take a bite of it.
 # 5 But this seemed like a bad idea...
+cyf@MacBookPro individual-shell-tools % cat helper-files/* | nl -v 1 -n ln
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-01.sh b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-01.sh
index fb05f42f2..41cb0b856 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-01.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-01.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output every line in dialogue.txt said by the Doctor.
 # The output should contain 6 lines.
+grep '^Doctor:' dialogue.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-02.sh b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-02.sh
index df6f85640..381c9cc94 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-02.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-02.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output every line in dialogue.txt that contains the word Doctor (regardless of case).
 # The output should contain 9 lines.
+grep -i 'Doctor' dialogue.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-03.sh b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-03.sh
index 5383fe578..64f0405d0 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-03.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-03.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output the number of lines in dialogue.txt that contain the word Doctor (regardless of case).
 # The output should be exactly the number 9.
+grep -i -c 'Doctor' dialogue.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-04.sh b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-04.sh
index 80ee04776..db9b57fbd 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-04.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-04.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output every line in dialogue.txt that does not contain the word "Hello" (regardless of case).
 # The output should contain 10 lines.
+grep -v -i 'Hello' dialogue.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-05.sh b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-05.sh
index 1eb538185..df64a3a38 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-05.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-05.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output every line in dialogue.txt that contains the string "cure", as well as the line before that line.
 # The output should contain two pairs of two lines of text (with a separator between them).
+grep -B 1 'cure' dialogue.txt
diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-06.sh b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-06.sh
index 5670e3b6c..d4099c8bb 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-06.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-06.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output the name of every `.txt` file in this directory which contains a line of dialogue said by the Doctor.
 # The output should contain two filenames.
+grep -h '^Doctor:' dialogue*.txt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-07.sh b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-07.sh
index 9670ebad9..491a4d45f 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-07.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/grep/script-07.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output, for each `.txt` file in this directory, how many lines of dialogue the Doctor has.
 # The output should show that dialogue.txt contains 6 lines, dialogue-2.txt contains 2, and dialogue-3.txt contains 0.
+grep -c '^Doctor:' dialogue*.txt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-01.sh b/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-01.sh
index 241b62f5e..081f2c7c2 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-01.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-01.sh
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ fi
 
 # TODO: Write a command to list the files and folders in this directory.
 # The output should be a list of names including child-directory, script-01.sh, script-02.sh, and more.
+ls 
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-02.sh b/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-02.sh
index d0a5a10f4..9fa05d88b 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-02.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-02.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command which lists all of the files in the directory named child-directory.
 # The output should be a list of names: helper-1.txt, helper-2.txt, helper-3.txt.
+ls child-directory
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-03.sh b/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-03.sh
index 781216d21..7a1a1d315 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-03.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-03.sh
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # TODO: Write a command which _recursively_ lists all of the files and folders in this directory _and_ all of the files inside those folders.
 # The output should be a list of names including: child-directory, script-01.sh, helper-1.txt (and more).
 # The formatting of the output doesn't matter.
+ls -R
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-04.sh b/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-04.sh
index 72f3817b3..36a997093 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-04.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/ls/script-04.sh
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ echo "First exercise (sorted newest to oldest):"
 
 # TODO: Write a command which lists the files in the child-directory directory, one per line, sorted so that the most recently modified file is first.
 # The output should be a list of names in this order, one per line: helper-3.txt, helper-1.txt, helper-2.txt.
-
+ls % ls -1t child-directory
 
 echo "Second exercise (sorted oldest to newest):"
 
 # TODO: Write a command which does the same as above, but sorted in the opposite order (oldest first).
 # The output should be a list of names in this order, one per line: helper-2.txt, helper-1.txt, helper-3.txt.
+ls -1tr child-directory
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-01.sh b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-01.sh
index d592970fc..6255a124b 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-01.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-01.sh
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # TODO: Write a command to output input.txt with all occurrences of the letter `i` replaced with `I`.
 # The output should contain 11 lines.
 # The first line of the output should be: "ThIs Is a sample fIle for experImentIng wIth sed.".
+sed 's/i/I/g' input.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-02.sh b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-02.sh
index abdd64d06..d3f70b8ce 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-02.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-02.sh
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # TODO: Write a command to output input.txt with numbers removed.
 # The output should contain 11 lines.
 # Line 6 of the output should be " Alisha".
+sed 's/[0-9]//g' input.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-03.sh b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-03.sh
index dd284a296..02b29409e 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-03.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-03.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output input.txt removing any line which contains a number.
 # The output should contain 6 lines.
+sed '/[0-9]/d' input.txt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-04.sh b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-04.sh
index 0052ac6c4..478211422 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-04.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-04.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output input.txt replacing every occurrence of the string "We'll" with "We will".
 # The output should contain 11 lines.
+sed "s/We'll/We will/g" input.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-05.sh b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-05.sh
index 2dcc91a0c..6f1b7cba0 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-05.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-05.sh
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # If a line starts with a number and a space, make the line instead end with a space and the number.
 # So line 6 which currently reads "37 Alisha" should instead read "Alisha 37".
 # The output should contain 11 lines.
+sed -E 's/^([0-9]+) (.*)/\2 \1/' input.txt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-06.sh b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-06.sh
index 0b9390170..83a2adf02 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-06.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/sed/script-06.sh
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # The output should contain 11 lines.
 # Line 3 should be "It contains many lines, and there are some things you may want to do with each of them.".
 # Line 11 should be "We also should remember, when we go shopping, to get 4 items: oranges, cheese, bread, olives.".
+sed -E 's/,([^ ])/, \1/g' input.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-01.sh b/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-01.sh
index c9dd6e5df..f079e46a0 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-01.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-01.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output the number of words in the file helper-files/helper-3.txt.
 # The output should include the number 19. The output should not include the number 92.
+wc -w < ../helper-files/helper-3.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-02.sh b/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-02.sh
index 8feeb1a62..86aaca2a5 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-02.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-02.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 # TODO: Write a command to output the number of lines in the file helper-files/helper-3.txt.
 # The output should include the number 3. The output should not include the number 19.
+wc -l < ../helper-files/helper-3.txt
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diff --git a/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-03.sh b/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-03.sh
index 6b2e9d3d1..e6fdd8699 100755
--- a/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-03.sh
+++ b/individual-shell-tools/wc/script-03.sh
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ set -euo pipefail
 #        1       7      39 ../helper-files/helper-2.txt
 #        3      19      92 ../helper-files/helper-3.txt
 #        5      30     151 total
+wc ../helper-files/*
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diff --git a/number-systems/README.md b/number-systems/README.md
index 77a3bde94..fe83efad0 100644
--- a/number-systems/README.md
+++ b/number-systems/README.md
@@ -5,61 +5,61 @@ Do not convert any binary numbers to decimal when solving a question unless the
 The goal of these exercises is for you to gain an intuition for binary numbers. Using tools to solve the problems defeats the point.
 
 Convert the decimal number 14 to binary.
-Answer:
+Answer:1110
 
 Convert the binary number 101101 to decimal:
-Answer:
+Answer:45
 
 Which is larger: 1000 or 0111?
-Answer:
+Answer:1000
 
 Which is larger: 00100 or 01011?
-Answer:
+Answer:01011
 
 What is 10101 + 01010?
-Answer:
+Answer:11111
 
 What is 10001 + 10001?
-Answer:
+Answer:100010
 
 What's the largest number you can store with 4 bits, if you want to be able to represent the number 0?
-Answer:
+Answer:1111
 
 How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 255 inclusive?
-Answer:
+Answer:8
 
 How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 3 inclusive?
-Answer:
+Answer:2
 
 How many bits would you need in order to store the numbers between 0 and 1000 inclusive?
-Answer:
+Answer:10
 
 How can you test if a binary number is a power of two (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...)?
-Answer:
+Answer: if you write the number in binary and there is one "1" then its a power of two
 
 Convert the decimal number 14 to hex.
-Answer:
+Answer: E
 
 Convert the decimal number 386 to hex.
-Answer:
+Answer:182
 
 Convert the hex number 386 to decimal.
-Answer:
+Answer:902
 
 Convert the hex number B to decimal.
-Answer:
+Answer:11
 
 If reading the byte 0x21 as a number, what decimal number would it mean?
-Answer:
+Answer:33
 
 If reading the byte 0x21 as an ASCII character, what character would it mean?
-Answer:
+Answer: !
 
 If reading the byte 0x21 as a greyscale colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean?
-Answer:
+Answer:very dark grey  33  '0x00 = black and oxff white' then 33 is near black which is dark grey
 
 If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as an RGB colour, as described in "Approaches for Representing Colors and Images", what colour would it mean?
-Answer:
+Answer: bright purple  170, 0, 255
 
 If reading the bytes 0xAA00FF as a sequence of three one-byte decimal numbers, what decimal numbers would they be?
-Answer:
+Answer:170, 0, 255