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Can anyone please tell me what this command would do in couple of lines and how i can do that from windows?

# touch man.txt ; man touch cat.txt; man cat | man.txt ; wc -l man.txt; kill -9 1

I gotta admit I have no clue but my friend is being a showoff by asking me this kinda question. So I hope someone could save me here.

Haha good one, bro!

do not run that command!

it's several commands running one after another.
don't trust what your friend says specially in the terminal, i'll tell you why

touch man.txt = create the empty file man.txt
man touch cat.txt = show the manual (help) for the command touch and cat.txt (it will fail since cat.txt is not a command)
man cat | man.txt = show the manual for the cat command and send it to the file man.txt
wc -l man.txt = count the lines in man.txt

kill -9 1 = kills the program that is running with a process id of 1

this last command i will not ever recommend you run.

oh yeah, to do the same thing under windows you put a & between commands

c:\ cd \windows & dir /w & pause & cd .. & dir /w & pause