Project 8A: Creating a Plan
Well, now that you have a bit of command experience, it's time to get some practice and put all those commands to good use. In this project we start off easy by creating a .plan file, like I mentioned in the section "$ finger" on $ whoami. The actual .plan file is a hidden file (as you can see by the period before its name), which contains the plan or message that you add to that file. That message will appear in the output of someone's Terminal when they use the finger command to find out more about you. You may not need such a .plan file, but it is an easy enough way to get started working a bit more with commands and the Terminal itself, so let's give it a try.
To start out, we are going to open the Terminal-based ...
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