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# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">wc -w cars > count2.txt</span><br><br>What information does the '''count2.txt''' file contain?<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ls -l > listing.txt</span><br><br>What information does the '''listing.txt''' file contain?<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">pwd > listing.txt</span><br><br>What happenned to the original contents of the file called '''listing.txt'''?Why><br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command (use 2 greater-than signs): <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">date >> listing.txt</span><br><br>What information does the '''listing.txt''' file contain?<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">cat listing.txt cars > combined.txt</span><br><br>What information does the '''combined.txt''' file contain?<br><br>'''NOTE''': The '''cat''' command stands for "'''concatenate'''" which means to '''combine''' contents of multiple files into a single file.<br>This is why the command is called "''cat''".<br><br>
