Examining the contents of a file

So you want to see what's inside of a file?

• less gives you a simple, vim-like experience. It handles large files with large lines extraordinarily way.
• vim lets you edit the file.
• head gives you the first few lines.
• tail gives you the last few lines.

Maybe you want to be more specific about what you get?

• cut will extract a column from the file.
• grep will get only certain lines from the file.