Chapter 12. Showing What's in a File

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