I'm wondering how to read the contents of a file, for instance, I have a text file containing the words hello world
and I want to read this file without using a text editor. What can I do?
2 Answers
There are number of commands which you can use to read the file in terminal without using a text editor. My favorites are "less" & "more". You can also use cat as suggested by Scorch.
Uses:
more <file_name>
less <file_name>
cat <file_name>
You can also check man pages for more details.
I use the command cat
for this.. Ok so here are the contents of hello.txt
:
Hello World
Now you open terminal and cd
into the directory in which hello.txt
is located and type cat hello.txt
and the output will (or should) be: Hello World
.