#+options: toc:nil num:nil author:nil

* Display files

Show content of a file. Concatenates and writes file.
Using "tac" reverses the result of "cat" command

: cat file.txt

Using head, tail and less to show parts of files

Showing the first two entries

#+begin_src bash
 head -n 2 /etc/hosts
#+end_src

  #+RESULTS:
  | 127.0.0.1 | localhost |
  | 127.0.1.1 | myuser    |

  Showing the last two entries

  #+begin_src bash
 tail -n 2 /etc/hosts
  #+end_src

  #+RESULTS:
  | ff02::1 | ip6-allnodes   |
  | ff02::2 | ip6-allrouters |


  #+begin_src bash
 less /etc/hosts
  #+end_src

  #+RESULTS:
  | 127.0.0.1 | localhost      |               |              |
  | 127.0.1.1 | myuser         |               |              |
  | ::1       | localhost      | ip6-localhost | ip6-loopback |
  | ff02::1   | ip6-allnodes   |               |              |
  | ff02::2   | ip6-allrouters |               |              |


Show content of a zip file using less and pipe "|"

#+begin_src bash
unzip -l tntvillage_484094.zip | less  
#+end_src