In this hands-on lab, we’ll make use of documentation available from the command line to answer specific questions about a command or file. Man and info pages are readily available, useful sources of documentation on Linux commands and configuration files.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Determine How Many Lines the File Contains
- The documentation found in the man and info pages suggests that the
-loption may be used to determine the total number of lines.wc -l longfile.txt - Run the command and output the result into a new file named
value.txt.wc -l longfile.txt > value.txt
- The documentation found in the man and info pages suggests that the
- Determine the Number of Characters on the Longest Line
- The documentation found in the man and info pages suggests that the
-Loption may be used to determine the number of characters on the longest line.wc -L longfile.txt - Run the command and append the result to the
value.txtfile.wc -L longfile.txt >> value.txt
- The documentation found in the man and info pages suggests that the
- Determine the Total Number of Characters in the File
- The documentation found in the man and info pages suggests that the
-moption may be used to determine the total number of characters in the file.wc -m longfile.txt - Run the command and append the result to the
value.txtfile.wc -m longfile.txt >> value.txt
- The documentation found in the man and info pages suggests that the
