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| Chapter 25 | |
Contents:
Cracking the Nut
Four Ways to Skin a cat
Using more to Page Through Files
The "less" Pager: More than "more"
Page Through Compressed, RCS, Unprintable Files
What's in That White Space?
Show Non-Printing Characters with cat -v or od -c
Finding File Types
Adding and Deleting White Space
Squash Extra Blank Lines
crush: A cat that Skips all Blank Lines
Double Space, Triple Space ...
pushin: Squeeze Out Extra White Space
How to Look at the End of a File: tail
Finer Control on tail
How to Look at a File as It Grows
An Alias in Case You Don't Have tail
Watching Several Files Grow
Reverse Lines in Long Files with flip
Printing the Top of a File
Numbering Lines
This chapter talks about the many ways of dumping a file to the screen. Most users know the brute force approach provided by cat (25.2), but there's more to it than that:
Pagers like more (25.3) and less (25.4) that give you more control when looking through long files.
Looking at files that are compressed or otherwise unviewable (article 25.5).
Finding out what type of data a file contains before opening it (article 25.8).
Adding and deleting blank lines or other white space before displaying a file (articles 25.9 through 25.13).
Looking at just the beginning or just the end of a file (articles 25.14 through 25.20).
Numbering lines (article 25.21).
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