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

Posted by Sylvania Cuffy
Sylvania Cuffy
2,461 Points

Complete the final command to print out the contents of the a.txt file, with line numbers. (Hint: the option includes th

Help. This one is NOT working out for me please help. One of the answers I tried was -n a,text but I'm not having any luck.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,172 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,172 Points

It looks like you had the right idea. But the file name is "a.txt" (with a period and no "e") and you wrote "a,text" (with a comma and the whole word "text").

Fix the filename part and you should pass the question.