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How do you view text in Linux?
5 commands to view files in Linux
- Cat. This is the simplest and perhaps the most popular command to view a file in Linux. …
- nl. The nl command is almost like the cat command. …
- Less. Less command views the file one page at a time. …
- Head. Head command is another way of viewing text file but with a slight difference. …
- Tail.
Does Linux have TXT files?
Plain old text files usually carry no extension in Linux, but this isn’t universal for all programs configuration files. The programmer usually gets to decide that. I think “. txt” is useful under Linux if you want to emphasize that it’s NOT a configuration file or other machine-readable document.
