It's 4am, someone please help... I can't get the input

>>173573
maybe just:
fastboot -w flashing unlock

PS. I don't know what You are trying to do, just reading the help text. BTW. You never type <> or [], there are either values that You are supposed to provided (see -n <page size>, where You can specify page size like this: '-n 4048').

>>173598
>fastboot -w flashing unlock

I think "fastboot flashing unlock -w" might work better.

>>173573
Oh, god.

GO TO SLEEP BEFORE YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE.

Then, in the morning, learn to read help pages.

<> means a blank you have to fill in. The text inside is a clue as to what to fill it with. YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE IT AS <filename>.
[] means something you have the option of typing or not. If you use a [], you have to use the whole [] or none of it.
YOU DON'T TYPE THE <>s or []s!

So if you had
tar [-f <filename>]
you could either type
tar
or
tar -f /home/foo/bar.tar

You couldn't type
!tar -f
because that's only half of the bit in []s.


You seem to be wanting
fastboot flashing unlock
unless you really want to DELETE YOUR USER DATA, in which case
fastboot -w flashing unlock