View A Text File's Contents
Often we want to look at the contents of some code or configuration file. In Linux, we can do this using the less
command.
Create A Text File With Some Contents
echo "Hello World" > hello_world.txt
View Contents Of File
To view the contents of a file we can open it in the nano
, a common text editor in Linux systems.
nano hello_world.txt
If we want to leave a file we can press ctrl-x
.