File Handling Commands in Linux

cat - used to display the contents of a small file on terminal

      usage: cat <file name>

      cat when supplied with more than one file will concatenate the files without

 any header information

 more and less commands are used to view large files one page at a time

      usage: more <file name>

      usage: less <file name>

wc -command is used to count lines, words and characters, depending on the

option used.

     usage: wc [options] [file name]

    You can just print number of lines, number of words or number of characters

by using following options:

     -l : Number of lines

     -w : Number of words

     -c : Number of characters

File Handling Commands in Linux