curriculum/1.solar-system/1.welcome/06.the-reader/index.md

type, title, xp, duration, difficulty

type	title	xp	duration	difficulty
challenge	The Reader	50	30	2

The Reader

[INCOMING — Mission Control, Earth]

Cadet, an old mission log was recovered. We need three things from it.

When your script runs, mission-log.txt is sitting in the working directory. Pull these out:

1. The first 5 lines → save to first-five.txt
2. The last 3 lines → save to last-three.txt
3. The total line count → save to line-count.txt

Three commands:

• head -n N file — first N lines
• tail -n N file — last N lines
• wc -l file — count lines

[END TRANSMISSION]

Your Task

In starter/starter.sh, produce the three output files using head, tail, wc, and redirect.

Objectives

• first-five.txt matches the first 5 lines of the log
• last-three.txt matches the last 3 lines of the log
• line-count.txt contains the line count