Cracking the Nut What Good Is a cat? "less" is More Show Nonprinting Characters with cat -v or od -c What's in That Whitespace? Finding File Types Squash Extra Blank Lines How to Look at the End of a File: tail Finer Control on tail How to Look at Files as They Grow GNU tail File Following Printing the Top of a File Numbering Lines
Summary Box This chapter talks about the many ways of dumping a file to the screen. Most users know the brute force approach provided by cat (Section 12.2), but there's more to it than that: Pagers such as more and less (Section 12.3) that give you more control when looking through long files. Finding out what type of data a file contains before opening it (Section 12.6). Looking at just the beginning or end of a file (Section 12.8 through Section 12.12). Numbering lines (Section 12.13). -- TOR
This chapter talks about the many ways of dumping a file to the screen. Most users know the brute force approach provided by cat (Section 12.2), but there's more to it than that:
Pagers such as more and less (Section 12.3) that give you more control when looking through long files.
Finding out what type of data a file contains before opening it (Section 12.6).
Looking at just the beginning or end of a file (Section 12.8 through Section 12.12).
Numbering lines (Section 12.13).
-- TOR
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