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View First And Last Parts Of Files

17 Jun 2018

The sort command reorganizes lines in a text file or standard output (technically the same thing) so they are arranged numerically and alphabetically.

Create Example File With List Of Names

echo 'Luca Gartside' >> adventurers.txt
echo 'Reule Smyth' >> adventurers.txt
echo 'Spencer Smit' >> adventurers.txt
echo 'Crurnirk Steelflow' >> adventurers.txt
echo 'Uli Pinetotem' >> adventurers.txt
echo 'Ognem Dustsplitter' >> adventurers.txt
echo 'Ebil Frugroll' >> adventurers.txt
echo 'Gordon Humphrey' >> adventurers.txt
echo 'Jermaine Randall' >> adventurers.txt
echo 'Eli Steele' >> adventurers.txt
echo 'Gregory Potts' >> adventurers.txt
echo 'Emil Carter' >> adventurers.txt

View File

cat adventurers.txt

Luca Gartside
Reule Smyth
Spencer Smit
Crurnirk Steelflow
Uli Pinetotem
Ognem Dustsplitter
Ebil Frugroll
Gordon Humphrey
Jermaine Randall
Eli Steele
Gregory Potts
Emil Carter

View First 10 Lines Of Fine

head adventurers.txt

Luca Gartside
Reule Smyth
Spencer Smit
Crurnirk Steelflow
Uli Pinetotem
Ognem Dustsplitter
Ebil Frugroll
Gordon Humphrey
Jermaine Randall
Eli Steele

View First 3 Lines Of Fine

head -n 3 adventurers.txt

Luca Gartside
Reule Smyth
Spencer Smit

View Last 5 Lines Of Fine

tail -n 5 adventurers.txt

Gordon Humphrey
Jermaine Randall
Eli Steele
Gregory Potts
Emil Carter