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Development Tools Introduction to the Terminal The Command Shell Command Arguments and Options

Posted by Roberto Rivera
Roberto Rivera
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treehouse:~/workspace$ ls a.txt b.txt c.txt treehouse:~/workspace$ cat

I am having trouble understanding this. This is nothing like command line on a normal desktop or work on DOS. What is the solution to this?

1 Answer

Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
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Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
20,884 Points

you've been asked to print the contents in the a.txt file for the first question

cat a.txt

second question, print all the contents in the b.txt and the c.txt file

cat b.txt c.txt

this is the terminal way of doing it, or the unix way of doing it, it is not that confusing nor hard, it can be a little daunting at the start, but if you insist to not give up, it comes very easy.