This chapter talks about the many ways of dumping a file to the screen.
Most users know the brute force approach provided by
cat
(25.2
)
,
but there's more to it than that:
Pagers like
more
(25.3
)
and
less
(25.4
)
that give you more control when looking through long files.
Looking at files that are compressed or otherwise unviewable
(article
25.5
).
Finding out what type of data a file contains before opening it
(article
25.8
).
Adding and deleting blank lines or other white space before
displaying a file
(articles
25.9
through
25.13
).
Looking at just the beginning or just the end of a file
(articles
25.14
through
25.20
).
Numbering lines (article
25.21
).