# Need help with a #NI6 Single quotes stage

**URL:** <https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/need-help-with-a-ni6-single-quotes-stage/15631>\
**Category:** Challenges\
**Tags:** challenge:shell\
**Created:** [December 8, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/need-help-with-a-ni6-single-quotes-stage/15631 "2025-12-08T16:57:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlexYaPraktikum](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.codecrafters.io/alexyapraktikum/32/20860_2.png) [@AlexYaPraktikum](https://forum.codecrafters.io/u/AlexYaPraktikum)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/need-help-with-a-ni6-single-quotes-stage/15631/1 "2025-12-08T16:57:24Z")

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Hi!

Im not an experienced terminal user so give me some clarifications please. For example Your unit tests suggest the following raw string as an input for my code:  
`cat ‘/tmp/pig/f 26’ ‘/tmp/pig/f 17’ ‘/tmp/pig/f 99’`

What actually should this command look like after my code process this input? I mean what a correct line of the command to feed it to the terminal should look like.

For now my solution give me this and it is wrong apparently:  
`cat /tmp/pig/f 26 /tmp/pig/f 17 /tmp/pig/f 99`

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![AlexYaPraktikum](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.codecrafters.io/alexyapraktikum/32/20860_2.png) [@AlexYaPraktikum](https://forum.codecrafters.io/u/AlexYaPraktikum)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/need-help-with-a-ni6-single-quotes-stage/15631/3 "2025-12-08T18:14:27Z")

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Should it look like `cat /tmp/pig/f /tmp/pig/f /tmp/pig/f` instead?

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**Author:** ![AlexYaPraktikum](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.codecrafters.io/alexyapraktikum/32/20860_2.png) [@AlexYaPraktikum](https://forum.codecrafters.io/u/AlexYaPraktikum)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/need-help-with-a-ni6-single-quotes-stage/15631/4 "2025-12-08T19:42:40Z")

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Neither `cat /tmp/pig/f /tmp/pig/f /tmp/pig/f` nor `cat tmp/pig/f tmp/pig/f tmp/pig/f` nor `cat ~/tmp/pig/f ~/tmp/pig/f ~/tmp/pig/f` seem to be working for autotests. What do i miss here?)

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**Author:** ![AlexYaPraktikum](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.codecrafters.io/alexyapraktikum/32/20860_2.png) [@AlexYaPraktikum](https://forum.codecrafters.io/u/AlexYaPraktikum)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/need-help-with-a-ni6-single-quotes-stage/15631/5 "2025-12-08T20:02:37Z")

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Ah, so this topic gave “the insight” i needed [Expected: "banana blueberry.banana orange.apple strawberry." remote: [tester::#NI6] Received: "cat: can't open '/tmp/quz/f': No such file or directory"](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/expected-banana-blueberry-banana-orange-apple-strawberry-remote-tester-ni6-received-cat-cant-open-tmp-quz-f-no-such-file-or-directory/3594)

So we basically should’ve reintrodused single quotation special for cat command for it to be able to process files with spaces insde its name… it wouldve been nice to have a hint like that inside the task description. Welp, the finalized string should look like this:  
`cat '/tmp/pig/f 26' '/tmp/pig/f 17' '/tmp/pig/f 99'`

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**Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/need-help-with-a-ni6-single-quotes-stage/15631/6 "2025-12-13T20:02:46Z")

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