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Exercise

Searching a book with shell

There is a copy of Charles Dickens's infamous 'Tale of Two Cities' in your home directory called two_cities.txt.

Use command line arguments such as cat, grep and wc with the right flag to count the number of lines in the book that contain either the character 'Sydney Carton' or 'Charles Darnay'. Use exactly these spellings and capitalizations.

Instructions

50 XP

Possible answers