Error running command in git?

Question

git

Hello!
I am learning Git. The tutorial says to execute the command:
ls -C .git/objects/<dir>
The result should be:

$ ls -C .git/objects/09
6b74c56bfc6b40e754fc0725b8c70b2038b91e  9fb6f9d3a104feb32fcac22354c4d0e8a182c1

And I have an error:

$ ls -C .git/objects/<dir>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

I tried to write dir without brackets, with quotes and with brackets and quotes - still an error.
Please tell me what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

as I understand it , they did it stupidly,
but it had to be done
with the condition that the directory 09 really exists