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Viewing files — Basics of Bash

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Lesson notes

  • cat to view a file
  • head to view first 10 lines
  • tail to view last 10 lines
  • tail -f to view last 10 lines and update in real time
  • grep to filter out lines (e.g. cat towns.txt | grep Norbrige)
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