Teachers 1st Question on HW

Pl3th0r4x · 02-05-2012, 05:16 PM

OK, I'm confused enough to ask for help now. My teacher wants to know

Quote:

"Use the cat utility with redirection as a simple editor to create a file in your home directory with your full name on the first line, and a blank second line."

He wants to know what the command is we used to create the document.

So far after a few hours of research and reading the best I have come up with is:

Code:

$ cat > Pl3th0r4x
Pl3th0r4x

^D
$

And then when I check to see the file I get:

Code:

$ echo Pl3th0r4x
Pl3th0r4x
$

No space.

Is echo showing me something different? In the gedit document "Pl3th0r4x" is saved with 2 lines, but it isn't reflecting that in the Terminal and thats what I think he is asking.

AlucardZero · 02-05-2012, 07:26 PM

The echo command just echoes back what you give it. You are not reading the file back in when you use echo.

See:

Code:

echo hello world!

Your gedit is right.

Pl3th0r4x · 02-05-2012, 07:32 PM

Ya I used the command

Code:

$ cat > Pl3th0r4x
Pl3th0r4x

^D
$

And then just typed

cat Pl3r0r4x

And it showed me the correct output.

Now he wants me to take the contents from apropos and calander and put them into a new file. At least thats what i think he wants.

Im pretty sure its

Code:

$ cat newfile
$ touch cal > newfile

But that may or may not be correct.