There are many commands that are used to look at the contents of a file. Here, we will discuss some frequently used commands like head, tac, cat, less & more and strings.

head command

This command is used to display the content from the beginning of a file as shown below.

tail command

This command is used to display the content from the last part of a file.

cat command

This command is used to dispalay content of a file or concatenate content of multiple files as shown below.

more command

This command is used to diaplay content of a file in pager form that is either in more format.

less command

This command is used to diaplay content of a file in pager form that is either in less format.

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