cat filename
| more
View the content of a text file called "filename", one page a time. The
"|" is the "pipe" symbol (on many American keyboards it shares the key
with "\"). more makes the output stop after each screenful.
For long files, it is sometimes convenient to use the commands head
and tail that display just the beginning and the end of the file,
or less that enables scrolling up and down. If you happened to
use cat a binary file and your terminal displays funny characters
afterwards, you can restore it with the command reset.
cat filename
| less
less filename
(two commands, use either) Scroll a content of a text file. Press q when
done. "less" is roughly an equivalent to "more" , the command you know
from DOS, but often "less" is more convenient than "more" because it lets
me scroll both up and down.
head
filename
Print first 10 lines of the (long) text file.
tail
filename
Print last 10 lines of a long or growing text file. Use tail -f filename
for tail to follow the file as it grows--really handy for continuing inspection
of log files.
pico
filename
Edit a text file using the simple and standard text editor called pico.
Use x to exit. There are many text editors
for Linux, including several GUI-based. A brand new clone
of pico (GPLed) is nano.
pico
-w filename
Edit a text file, while disabling the long line wrap. Handy for editing
configuration files, e.g. /etc/fstab.
kwrite
(in X terminal) Very nice, "advanced text editor". Supports veritical
text selection!
kate
kedit
gedit
(in X terminal). Simple yet nice text editors (GUI based).
gxedit
(in X terminal) Another multi-purpose, feature packed text editor. This
one even has timed backup.
latte
(in X terminal) "Code" editor, i.e., plain text editor meant for
writing programs.
nedit
(in X terminal) Another programmer editor. Very nice and loaded.
bluefish
(in X terminal) html editor (source with syntax highlighting and maaaany
tools and options).
ispell
filename
Spell check an ASCII text file. AbiWord, WordPerfect, StarOffice
and other word processors come with "as-you-type" spellchecking, so you
really don't have to worry about the simple ispell unless you need it.
Newer Linux distributions (e.g., RH7.0) contain an improved spellchecking
module called aspell, yet the above command will still work.
look
thermo
Look up the dictionary on your system (/usr/share/dict/words)
for words which start with "thermo".
wvHtml
ms_word_document.doc > filename.html
Convert a MS Word document to the html file format.
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