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Exercise

How can I view a file's contents?

Before you rename or delete files, you may want to have a look at their contents. The simplest way to do this is with cat, which just prints the contents of files onto the screen. (Its name is short for "concatenate", meaning "to link things together", since it will print all the files whose names you give it, one after the other.)

cat agarwal.txt

name: Agarwal, Jasmine
position: RCT2
start: 2017-04-01
benefits: full

Instructions

100 XP

Print the contents of course.txt to the screen.