Question: A snippet from a shell script is given below: line1 ... while read num line2 ...do line3 ...w[$i]=$num line4 ...i=$((i+1)) line5 ...done < $1 line6

A snippet from a shell script is given below:
line1 ... while read num
line2 ...do
line3 ...w[$i]=$num
line4 ...i=$((i+1))
line5 ...done < $1
line6 ...echo ${w[*]}
line7 ...echo ${#w[*]}
If the numbers entered by the user are 1 3 5 7 9 on separate lines :
2a. What is printed (echo’ed) by the line 6 ?
2b. What is printed (echo’ed) by the line 7 ?

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