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How to view a text file on your Linux or Unix box like a pro

@nixCraft A.K.A. how to use the most clock cycles for the least amount of work.

@nixCraft For me it's a toss-up between head and one of the editors.

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Useless use of curl?

@nixCraft ...do a |less to that.

@nixCraft meanwhile on Debian 11

@obspy @nixCraft u forgot a slash

@nixCraft cp test /dev/stdout

@[email protected] @nixCraft any reason not to make cat an alias of that?

@locness3 @nixCraft You’d need a function, cat needs to handle multiple files, cp with 2+ origins wants the destination to be a directory.

Also it makes coreutils says rather funny things if you want the behavior of argument-less cat:

$ cp /dev/stdin /dev/stdout
cp: '/dev/stdin' and '/dev/stdout' are the same file