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displayfile

Instructions

Write a program that displays, on the standard output, the content of a file given as argument.

• Create a file quest8.txt and write into it the sentence Almost there!!

• The argument of the program in this case should be, quest8.txt.

• In case of error the program should print one the below messages accordingly:

  • File name missing.
  • Too many arguments.

Usage :

student@ubuntu:~/student/displayfile$ go build
student@ubuntu:~/student/displayfile$ ./displayfile
File name missing
student@ubuntu:~/student/displayfile$ ./displayfile quest8.txt main.go
Too many arguments
student@ubuntu:~/student/displayfile$ ./displayfile quest8.txt
Almost there!!