Goals for this Hour

In this hour, you learn how to

• Use file to identify file types

• Explore UNIX directories with file

• Peek at the first few lines with head

• View the last few lines with tail

• View the contents of files with cat

• View larger files with more

This hour begins with a tool to help ensure that the files you're about to view are intended for human perusal and then explores many of the commands available to view the contents of the file in various ways.