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Hi there, I hope this day finds you well.
Unfortunately we were not able to make it to your dining
room this year while vacationing in Algonquin Park - I
especially wished to see the model of the Highland Inn
and the train station in the dining room.
I have been reading on the history of Algonquin Park but
no where could I find a description of where the Highland
Inn was originally located on Cache lake.
If it is no trouble, could you kindly let me know such that
I need not wait until next year when I visit your lodge?
Regards,
Mackenzie Elizabeth
[root@server1 ~]#_
You can also use the cat command to display the line number of each line in the file (in addition
to the contents) by passing the –n option to the cat command. In the following example,
the line numbers in the project4 file are displayed:
[root@server1 ~]# cat –n project4
1 Hi there, I hope this day finds you well.
2
3 Unfortunately we were not able to make it to your dining
4 room this year while vacationing in Algonquin Park - I
5 especially wished to see the model of the Highland Inn
6 and the train station in the dining room.
7
8 I have been reading on the history of Algonquin Park but
9 no where could I find a description of where the Highland
10 Inn was originally located on Cache lake.
11
12 If it is no trouble, could you kindly let me know such that
13 I need not wait until next year when I visit your lodge?
14
15 Regards,
16 Mackenzie Elizabeth
[root@server1 ~]#_
In some cases, you might want to display the contents of a certain text file in reverse order,
which is useful when displaying files that have text appended to them continuously by system
services. These files, also known as log files, contain the most recent entries at the bottom of
the file. To display a file in reverse order, use the tac command (tac is cat spelled backwards),
as shown next with the file project4:
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