First day at college the lecturer says "As soon as you've finished editing your programmes, type 'rmcobol < a.txt > a.out'". So, having finished first, I type

First day at college the lecturer says "As soon as you've finished editing your programmes, type 'rmcobol < a.txt > a.out'". So, having finished first, I type "rm cobol < a.txt > a.out", and I spend a while wondering what "cobol not found" means before I realise what I've done. [unix syntax from memory, may be wrong]