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Linux File Contents Command

There are many commands which help to look at the contents of a file. Now we’ll look at some of the commands like head, tac, cat, less & more and strings.

We’ll discuss about the following file contents given in the table:

Commands	Function
head	It displays the beginning of a file.
tail	It displays the last last part of a file.
cat	This command is versatile and multi worker.
tac	Opposite of cat.
more	Command line diaplays contents in pager form that is either in more format.
less	Command line diaplays contents in pager form that is either in less format.

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