which command is used ot view file in linux.

[srikanth sankurthi]

which command is used ot view file in linux.

[Christophe Verré]

There are many. Depending on what you mean by 'view'. For example, you can use 'vi'.

[srikanth sankurthi]

To view the content of the file.
And also let me know the difference between cat and vi commands.

[Christophe Verré]

Learn to use the "man" command.
-> man cat
-> man vi

"cat" will outputs the content of the file, while "vi" is an editor which allows you to edit the file. Apparently, "vi" is a bit to early to use.

[Anayonkar Shivalkar]

srikanth sankurthi wrote:which command is used ot view file in linux.

As Christophe mentioned, there are various editors available for Linux (not 'linux') based distros.

It depends on what kind of system you are using.

Are you connecting to a system via terminal? Do you have to work explicitly via command line? In that case vi editor can be useful.

If you are working with some desktop environment, then you can use gedit, kedit, emacs and so on.

[Jesper de Jong]

srikanth sankurthi wrote:And also let me know the difference between cat and vi commands.

cat just prints the content of the file to the terminal window. vi is a text editor.

[Tim Holloway]

Actually, the commonly-used command to view text files is the "more" command, which provides a paged view of the file (cat just dumps the whole thing to the console, where it can roll off the screen).

An improved version of "more" is named "less", and that program can also scroll the display backwards. "more" can only go forwards.

I don't recommend using editors such as "vi" to view files. You might accidentally alter the file.

[Stefan Wagner]

srikanth sankurthi wrote:which command is used ot view file in linux.

Which kind of file? Java-source/textfile, (less, cat, gedit, nano, mcedit, vi, emacs), image (eog, gimp, ...), video (vlc, mplayer, gxine, ...), pdf (xpdf, evince, acroread), zip, mp3, rar, xml, ...

[Adam Perrine]

In linux dir command is used to show files

for more about linux commnads open below link

https://www.puttygen.com/linux-commands

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch Most of us use ls to view a directory's contents.

[Adam Perrine]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:Welcome to the Ranch Most of us use ls to view a directory's contents.

Right, but i'm using dir command !!