Summary

Now that you can add this set of commands to your retinue of UNIX expertise, you are most certainly ready to wander about your own computer system, understanding what files are what, where they are, and how to peer inside. You learned about file to ascertain type, head and tail for seeing snippets of files, and cat and more to help easily view files of any size on your screen.

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