Unit 2 · Basic Commands · Lesson 10 of 34
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Learning Your First Command
Commands in Linux don't always have intuitive or self-explanatory names. A good example of this, and the first command you will be learning, is cat. cat is a command to read out the data within any file.
The format goes like this: cat <file_name.ext>
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