Recap - Text Detective
Part of the Fundamentals section of Coddy's Terminal journey — lesson 36 of 82.
Challenge
EasyPut all your file content skills together! Run the following five commands in order:
- Show the first 3 lines of
server.log - Count the total number of lines in
server.log - Sort
fruits.txtin alphabetical order - Remove duplicate lines from
duplicates.txt - Find all error lines in
server.logwith their line numbers
You will need to run five commands in order. Think carefully about which command and flag each task requires!
Try it yourself
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2Navigation
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