Linux Terminal Basics: Text Viewers - Cat, More, Less, Head, Tail, Grep, Od

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Published on January 20, 2018 4:33:12 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ9P5BP5x3I

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Looking at the various GNU Text Viewers available in the Linux terminal: Cat, More, Less, Head, Tail, Grep, Od.

Cat is a basic viewer and can also concatenate files together
More & Less allow navigating through large document or process output
Head & Tail can be used to view log files
Grep is used to find text
Od (Octal Dump) is used to examine binary files

Background from Charlie Henson:
Abstract on Bricks - https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1208048/

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