Question

3. 2. Challenge

Content concatenation

Evaluate your content concatenation skills by completing the following tasks:

1. Append the current user to the ~/workspace/project-log/changelog.txt file:
2. Changelog:
3. Version: 1.0
4. username: current_user
5. Append the ~/workspace/project-log/file-list.txt file content to the ~/workspace/project-log/changelog.txt file:
6. Changelog
7. Version: 1.0
8. username: current_user
9. hello.txt
10. hi.txt
11. project-log

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Answer 1

ANSWER :

Task1:

Evaluate your content concatenation skills by completing the following tasks:

Append the current userto the ~/workspace/project-log/changelog.txt file:

Current user can be found out using command : whoami

Append the current userto the ~/workspace/project-log/changelog.txt file:

username=`whoami`

echo `username: $username` >> ~/workspace/project-log/changelog.txt

Output:

cat /home/user1/workspace/project-log/changelog.txt
Changelog:
Version: 1.0
username: user1

Task2:

Append the ~/workspace/project-log/file-list.txt file content to the ~/workspace/project-log/changelog.txt file

cat ~/workspace/project-log/file-list.txt >> ~/workspace/project-log/changelog.txt

cat command will display the contents of ~/workspace/project-log/file-list.txt and will redirect or append them to ~/workspace/project-log/changelog.txt file.

NOTE :

echo 'username: codio' >> ~/workspace/project-log/changelog.txt This is how the first should be written in Codio