11. Viewing files (cat, less)
Viewing files
With the Shell, you can use commands to view files, let's learn how to do it in this concept.
Use the workspace below the video to practice the commands and remember to practice locally in your computer too. You should have downloaded the dictionary.txt in the previous concept in the workspace.
Ud206 013 Shell P8 - Viewing Files
Commands
cat: View file content.less: View file content screen by screen.
Remember from the previous concept you downloaded dictionary.txt file into Downloads, you will need to cd into Downloads directory.
## Workspace
You can use this workspace to test your commands.
Workspace
This section contains either a workspace (it can be a Jupyter Notebook workspace or an online code editor work space, etc.) and it cannot be automatically downloaded to be generated here. Please access the classroom with your account and manually download the workspace to your local machine. Note that for some courses, Udacity upload the workspace files onto https://github.com/udacity, so you may be able to download them there.
Workspace Information:
- Default file path:
- Workspace type: repl
- Opened files (when workspace is loaded): n/a
What's the next word?
QUESTION:
Using the dictionary.txt file and the less command, find out the next word after the word goobers in this dictionary.
SOLUTION:
less dictionary.txt
/goobers