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NewsForge: CLI for Noobies: An Initiation more or less

“Today is all about tips and tricks from the command line. The
only thing they share is that at times they can be useful for life
on the CLI-frontier and beyond. Most are exceedingly easy to learn
and to use. But as always, be sure and do a man or info on each
command covered here to fill in the gaps. The last one takes you a
little deeper than we’ve been before. It will be an initiation of
sorts. But don’t worry. You can handle it.

“There is a very handy program included in most Linux
distributions called more. Like many other things, it came to Linux
via BSD. It’s used to display the contents of a text file one page
at a time, rather than simply dumping the entire file to the
terminal. If you recall, that’s what the cat command does, and if
you need information at the top of a file that’s more than a page
long, you have to read real fast to get it…”


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