Given the following script code:

1 Sort Stations.txt SortCount.txt

2 echo "The number of words in the file:" SortCount.txt

3 cat Stations.txt | wc -w SortCount.txt

4 echo "The number of line in the file:" SortCount.txt

5 cat Stations.txt | wc -l SortCount.txt

Which line of code will cause error when running the script? Assume that file Stations.txt exists and is accessible.

Question

Given the following script code:

1   Sort Stations.txt > SortCount.txt

2   echo "The number of words in the file:" >> SortCount.txt

3   cat Stations.txt | wc -w >> SortCount.txt

4   echo "The number of line in the file:" >> SortCount.txt

5   cat Stations.txt | wc -l >> SortCount.txt

Which line of code will cause error when running the script? Assume that file Stations.txt exists and is accessible.

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The task presents a small shell script and asks which line will cause an error when executed, assuming Stations.txt exists and is readable.
Option 1: Line 1 - Sort Stations.txt > SortCount.txt. Here the potential issue is that the command name is capitalized as Sort. On most Unix-like systems, command names are case-sensitive and the correct lowercase form is sort. If the system uses a standard Linux/Unix environment, typing Sort will result in a command not found error. If, however, the environment somehow has a program named Sort, it could work, but that would be nonstandard. So this line is the most likely source of an error due to case sensitivity.
Option 3: Line 3 - cat Stations.txt | wc -w >> SortCount.txt. This pipeline concatenates the file and counts words, appending the count to SortCount.txt. It is syntactically valid, and as long as Stations.txt exists and is readable, this should execute without error.
Option 5: Line 5 - cat Stations.txt | wc -l >> SortCount.txt. This line also forms a valid pipeline that counts lines and appends them to SortCount.txt. It will work provided the input file is accessible, so it should not cause an error.
Option 2 (implicit in the question’s options): Not present as a separate option, but evaluating the given choices, the echo line in the original script (Line 2) uses echo "The number of words in the file:" >> SortCount.txt, which is valid, though there is a minor typographical inconsistency between the wording in the echo and the actual count line that follows; this does not cause a syntax error.
Option 4 (implicit): The script’s Line 4 is echo "The number of line in the file:" >> SortCount.txt. This is also valid; it simply outputs text before the next command’s result. There is a minor grammatical issue (should be lines plural), but it does not cause a runtime error.
In summary, the only line that typically triggers an error in a standard Unix/Linux environment is Line 1 due to the nonstandard capitalized command name. All other lines perform valid operations: several use cat with wc to count words or lines, and the echoes simply append text to the output file, which is allowed in shell scripting.

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