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
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to Shell
Exercise instructions
Print the contents of course.txt
to the screen.
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