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    What would the correct answer be then?

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    About the 'grep' command... How does it determine what a "line" is?

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    What can we access using terminal

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    What does he mean by this?

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    Hi, can someone help me understand what exactly am I doing wrong? I put the dash behind the r, (recursive).

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    What does "mcs" mean in the context of running C# code?

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    What does the -p stand for?

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    Fill in the blanks to complete a command to copy the tickets directory and all its contents to a new tickets_backup dire

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  • Ian Stoddard
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    find command, works differently in Mac OS Terminal?

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    It seems I can use rm to remove a file but not rm -r to remove a folder

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  • Bashir Orfani
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    Fill in the blank to complete a command to view the contents of the profile.txt file using a page

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    What could I be missing?

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    view the contents of the profile.txt file using a pager program.

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    Is there a version of the 'man' command that works in Git Bash on Windows?

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